Specific questions regarding particular documents should be discussed with your supervisor and, in appropriate cases, with the counsel for your campus. The party issuing the subpoena can be charged the reasonable cost of any reproduction required by the subpoena. Arrangements for payment should be made before the documents are produced, and in most cases, payment should be required before the documents are surrendered. Failure to respond to a subpoena is punishable as a contempt of the court or agency issuing the subpoena. That court or agency has broad discretion to determine an appropriate punishment under all of the circumstances presented and generally will do so only after a hearing where the party charged with noncompliance has an opportunity to explain.
Punishment can include monetary sanctions or even imprisonment.
Generally, these are reserved only for the most egregious circumstances. More commonly, a contempt proceeding is the time when a court considers and decides the appropriateness of any documents withheld under a claim of privilege. In such cases the outcome of the proceeding Is more likely a further order to produce. It is not unusual, even in those instances, however, for the court to award attorneys' fees to the party who had to initiate the contempt proceedings for the cost of having done so.