Yousuf, Bashe Abdi v. Samantar, Mohamed

GINSBURG, Chief Judge.

The drafters of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure believed Rule 45 was “so simple that it did not need any discussion” at the symposia they held to introduce the Rules in 1938. American Bar Association, Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, Proceedings of the [American Bar Association] Institute [on Federal Rules] at Washington, D.C. and of the Symposium at New York City 313 (Edward H. Hammond ed.) (1939). The dispute before us today, in which plaintiff Bashe Abdi Yousuf and others challenge the district court’s denial of their motion to compel compliance with a subpoena…