Stormans Inc v. Mary Selecky

How courts have described this case

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• explaining that the rule “requires the district court to shift a non-party’s costs of compliance with a subpoena, if those costs are significant.”
• observing that Rule 45(d)(2)(B)(ii) “provides no exceptions” and “leaves no room for doubt that the rule is mandatory”
• stating that Title VII—like other federal employment-discrimination statutes—prohibits discrimination based on only specific, protected grounds and “is not a shield against harsh treatment at the workplace”
• stating that a court may impose sanctions under Rule 45(d)(1) “when a party issues a subpoena in bad faith, for an improper purpose, or in a manner inconsistent with existing law”
• stating that sanctions under Fed. R. Civ. P. 45(d)(1) are discretionary
• concluding that $20,000.00 is “significant”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).