But, without a lawyer, it is very hard for defendants like Mr. Turner to show that they cannot comply.
Lawyers for Mr. Levy have argued that he cannot comply because the state has not trained or recruited enough certified teachers.
If troubled countries find that they cannot comply with the loan conditions - and their richer neighbors grow increasingly impatient - they may have to follow Greece's lead.
"When we overcome the financial crisis," Mr. Cavallo predicted, "the perception in the markets that we cannot comply with our obligations and will fall into default and devaluation will dissolve.
"Firms that conduct audits knowing they cannot comply with laws requiring access to these work papers face serious sanctions".
But a meeting between the two sides in November appears to have ended frostily, and the SEC hardened its position this week by declaring that "firms that conduct audits knowing they cannot comply with laws requiring access to these work papers face serious sanctions".
"A statute that cannot be complied with is worse than no statute at all," a bar committee headed by Alan D. Lurie of New Rochelle wrote in its report.
The firm has gone to court to fight the S.E.C. request, saying that under Chinese law it cannot comply with the subpoena.
On an individual and institutional level, we cannot comply with the hate that the bill represents.
If firms that cannot afford to comply with the regulations are forced to exit the market, consumers may be protected if marginal firms and products disappeared and that might lead to greater consumer confidence in the use and safety of NHPs.
In addition to a comprehensive European blacklist of tax havens as the first step to a global blacklist, we should agree that British overseas territories and crown dependencies that fail to comply cannot be excluded from the blacklist; and the UK should now require them to have public registers of beneficial owners.
