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Scientists who want no part of lawyers and the judicial system may learn to their horror that a court can subpoena their research results, and perhaps even compel them to testify, if their work has some bearing on a case under litigation. For example, Dr. Sherine Gabriel of the Mayo Clinic, who coauthored an article elsewhere in this issue of the Journal,¹ was served with a subpoena for the primary data on which an earlier article was based.^2,3

In federal district courts, the rules governing the conduct of civil litigation — from filing a complaint through the final judgment — . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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