AT&T's Global Legal Demand Center receives hundreds of thousands of legal demands each year.
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operational
Describes the volume of legal process requests handled by a major telecommunications company's legal compliance unit.
Telecommunications providers commonly comply with grand jury subpoenas by producing subscriber toll records and such subpoenas are sometimes accompanied by nondisclosure (gag) orders.
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procedural
General practice regarding how telecom carriers respond to grand jury subpoenas for call detail/toll records.
A subpoena that identifies only a phone number and does not indicate that the subscriber holds a particular public status (for example, that the number belongs to a member of Congress) may be processed as a routine legal demand by a carrier's subpoena processing center without additional inquiry.
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procedural
Explains why carriers may produce subscriber records when subpoenas lack identifying context about the subscriber's official role.