First Choice Women’s Resource Centers, Inc. v. Davenport · ¶47

Take each argument in turn, starting with the Attorney General's most ambitious submission. He says that subpoenas issued by his office are “non-self-executing.” Brief for Respondent 7. Translated, that means they “impose no obligations of their own.” Id., at 3. Instead, any legal duty to produce records arises only when a court agrees to enforce the subpoena. Categorically, he says, this means a recipient of a non-self-executing subpoena like the one he issued to First Choice suffers no injury unless and until a court enforces it.

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