Pennsylvania Grand Jury Subpoena case developments

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: "Paul Levy" <plevy () citizen org>
Date: May 20, 2010 6:05:21 PM EDT
To: <dave () farber net>
Subject: Pennsylvania Grand Jury Subpoena case developments

After the Pennsylvania Attorney General's office got word that there was going to be opposition to its subpoena to 
Twitter to identify two Twitter users, the AG increased the pressure on Twitter by threatening to hold it in contempt 
of court if it failed to produce identifying information by Friday (apparently, so that the information could be used 
at a sentencing hearing that date).  Then, it moved up the deadline again and told Twitter it was going to seek 
contempt sanctions if it did not get the information by noon today.  Twitter has stood up to the pressure, reminding 
the Attorney General that a state court in Pennsylvania can't order a California company to do anything, and urging him 
to hold off until the Does can be heard in court.
 
On exceedingly short notice, Vic Walczak of the Pennsylvania ACLU affiliate has pulled together a legal team including 
two local firms specializing in both in grand jury work and the First Amendment, as well as Public Citizen and his ACLU 
office, to move to quash the subpoena.  http://aclupa.org/pressroom/aclurepresentinganonymoust.htm
 
 
 
Paul Alan Levy
Public Citizen Litigation Group
1600 - 20th Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20009
(202) 588-1000
http://www.citizen.org/litigation




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