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A Doe subpoena is a subpoena that seeks the identity of an unknown defendant to a lawsuit.Most jurisdictions permit a plaintiff who does not yet know a defendant's identity to file suit against a placeholder defendant, using the name John Doe or Jane Doe.
Doe v. 2themart.com Inc., 140 F. Supp. 2d 1088 (2001), was a federal case decided by United States District Court for the Western District of Washington, on the issue of an individual's First Amendment right to speak anonymously on the Internet and a private party's right to disclose the identity of the anonymous Internet user by enforcing a civil subpoena.
The resulting court decision permitted Pacific Century International to subpoena the identity of Doe 1, but dismissed claims against Does 2-101 for failure to demonstrate that the Does had operated as a single group while distributing the torrent, preventing each users' subpoena request from being enjoined into a single court filing. This case ...
It’s possible that Senate Republicans, who will retake the upper chamber in January, will subpoena the document, but that step could slow his confirmation. ... Jane Doe intervened and told [the ...
She published a book about her experience, The Story of Jane Doe: A Book about Rape, in 2003. A Doe subpoena is an investigatory tool that a plaintiff may use to seek the identity of an unknown defendant. Doe subpoenas are often served on online service providers and ISPs to obtain the identity of the author of an anonymous post. [27]
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Justice Department's internal watchdog said on Tuesday that prosecutors' decision to subpoena phone and email records from members of Congress and their staff during ...
Mobilisa v. Doe [1] was a lawsuit filed in 2005 by Mobilisa Inc., a Washington-based company that provides wireless and mobile communications to government and military clients. The case against John Doe, the anonymous sender of an email using the service "The Suggestion Box". The case is notable regarding the legal question of what standard ...
He turned down the porn company's request to subpoena its target's internet service provider. But Lamberth is in the bare minority of federal judges who have challenged plaintiffs such as Strike 3.