Chang v. Smith

How courts have described this case

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• permitting ex parte interviews of members of defendant’s tenure committee who voted to deny tenure to plaintiff
• noting “the tendency which the presence of opposing, counsel has to inhibit the free and open discussion which an attorney seeks to achieve at such interviews”
• permitting ex parte contact by counsel for the plaintiff professor, who was denied tenure, with professors sitting on the plaintiff’s peer review panel; such contact would appear to be prohibited under every other test
• the fact that certain statements may be admissible against the employer “in and of itself, does not mean that [the employer’s] counsel has to be present at the interviews of these [employees] in order to ensure ‘effective representation’ of [the employer]”
• guidelines for ex parte interviews

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).