In Re: Administrative Subpoena John Doe, D.P.M. v. United States

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• \immediacy and intrusiveness associated with a search are not present\ in a subpoena duces tecum and thus the heightened requirement of probable cause is inapplicable
• “[T]he DOJ’s subpoena power in investigating federal health care offenses is meant to be broad.”
• “immediacy and intrusiveness associated with a search are not present” in a subpoena duces te-cum and thus the heightened requirement of probable cause is inapplicable
• for a subpoena to be properly enforceable the information cannot already be in the DOJ’s possession
• “In the case of administrative subpoenas, parties may immediately appeal District Court orders enforcing these subpoenas, as the Supreme Court has deemed them to be ‘self-contained, so far as the judiciary is concerned[.]’” (quoting Cobbledick, 309 U.S. at 330)
• noting public importance of combating health-care fraud

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