United States v. Adrian Weems

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• “relevancy and adequacy or excess in the breadth of the subpoena are matters variable in relation to the nature, purposes and scope of the inquiry”
• investigation may go forward unless “irrelevant to any lawful purpose or . unauthorized by law”
• judicial supervision protects against agency demand for relevant information “if in any respect it is unreasonable or overreaches the authority Congress has given”
• administrative subpoena can only be enforced if the subject of the investigation is authorized by statute
• Agencies are generally granted broad deference in determining the scope of their investigative authority.
• the administrative subpoena duces tecum of corporate records was authorized by law and relevant

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).