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Why does US Rep. Lamar Smith want subpoena NOAA?
2015-11-19 11:53:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Christian Science Monitor: Rep. Lamar Smith, a Texas Republican who chairs the US House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, has subpoenaed seven years of all internal communications related to National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) climate research. The research resulted in the June publication of a paper in the peer-reviewed journal Science that refutes earlier, controversial findings that global temperature rise slowed between 1998 and 2012. In a second letter in a week asking for support from...
Liberal 'Net Neutrality' Activist Given Vast Subpoena Power
2015-10-29 20:42:10| IT Services - Topix.net
Liberal political activist Tim Wu is wasting no time using his new power as a member of the New York Attorney General's staff to issue subpoenas without prior judicial approval to force major Internet Service Providers to hand over documents and other material. Wu is known chiefly as a vocal advocate of new federal laws or regulations barring ISPs from charging customers variable rates for moving their content on the Internet.
Federal Court Approves EEOC Subpoena in Investigation of Union Pacific
2015-05-07 00:04:42| Railroads - Topix.net
A federal judge has approved a subpoena allowing the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to proceed with its class-wide race discrimination investigation of Union Pacific Railroad, the federal agency announced today. As indicated in the court's written decision, the EEOC's investigation began when two African-Americans filed charges alleging that Union Pacific had denied them promotions to assistant signal person positions because of their race.
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Guardrail maker receives subpoena from Department of Justice
2015-05-01 04:10:12| Railroads - Topix.net
The Texas-based company which manufacturers a widely criticized guardrail system is now the subject of another federal investigation, this time by the Department of Justice, I-Team 8 has learned. While a spokeswoman for the Department of Justice would not confirm or deny the existence of the investigation, documents filed this week with the Securities Exchange Commission show that the guardrail company, Trinity Industries, received a subpoena on Tuesday from the U.S. Department of Justice through the U.S. Attorney of Massachusetts, seeking 16 years worth of documents related to the ET 2000 and ET Plus guardrails.
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The Wall Street Journal: United Technologies discloses second SEC subpoena in bribery probe
2015-04-27 19:39:28| Paper - Topix.net
United Technologies Corp. said it received a second subpoena from U.S. authorities seeking information about potential foreign bribery violations. said late Friday it received a second subpoena on March 9 from the Securities and Exchange Commission seeking documents related to internal allegations of alleged violations of U.S. anti-bribery law by its aerospace and commercial businesses, including its work in China.
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