Straus served the subpoena on the students in connection with a civil racketeering lawsuit that he filed in an attempt to characterize the labor union as a collective gangster. After being served with the subpoenas, the students called for Straus’s resignation, arguing that “[s]omeone involved in violating labor laws and sending out subpoenas to check student speech is not someone who should be making policy for a public-spirited law school.”