Legal Opinion
United States v. Moloney
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided July 6, 2012No. 11-2511, 12-1159PublishedCited by 38 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LYNCH, Chief Judge.
These consolidated appeals are from the denial, in two cases, of the efforts of two academic researchers to prevent the execution of two sets of subpoenas issued in May and August of 2011. The subpoenas were issued to Boston College (“BC”) by a commissioner appointed pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 3512 and the “US-UK MLAT,” the mutual legal assistance treaty between the United States and the United Kingdom. The subpoenas are part of an investigation by United Kingdom authorities into the 1972 abduction and death of Jean McConville, who was thought to have acted as an informer for…
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