"As you can imagine, Facebook gets countless orders and subpoenas like this from courts throughout the country," Facebook lawyer Randy Tyler told the court, according to a report in the Oregonian.
Part of the argument for not complying with the subpoena goes like this: while search warrants (issued by the court).
The U.S. Telecom Association says that one of its member companies spent $3.7 million a year accommodating law enforcement subpoenas (and civil investigative demands, which are subpoena-like orders coming from agencies rather than grand juries).
Yahoo China (which I'd note is only 40% owned by Yahoo) received a "subpoena-like document" that requested information from a sovereign nation.
Likewise, he said, "if we get a subpoena like we did today for e-mail records, we have to give the courts an encrypted message.
Those that don't typically receive subpoenas like the one issued to the University of Oregon.
Among other things, Holder said that he would create a committee, including in-house advocates for privacy and civil liberties, to review subpoenas like the one issued to Risen.
Tygart comes across as an opportunist who used the subpoena like a machine gun.
I went twice to the Fiscalia [prosecutor's office] because the aggression continued and the last time I went they sent the citation subpoena like three months after.
Should such winners wave the subpoenas like big "we're number one" foam fingers?
