Finance Commission of Boston v. McGrath

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• courts should refrain from helping a commission “improperly to invade the witness’s privacy to the extent that privacy is constitutionally protected”
• “subpoena cannot require [witness] to produce documents not now within his possession or reasonable control”
• Federal tax returns are discoverable “if substantial necessity for production of the copies ha[s] been established”
• Finance Commission entitled to an order compelling auctioneer to testify before Commission and, upon demonstrating relevance, to an order compelling his production of federal income tax returns
• by statute, Massachusetts tax returns privileged; but Federal returns discoverable upon showing substantial necessity
• requests for documents relating to specified subjects permissibly described

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).