Horne v. SCHOOL BD. OF MIAMI-DADE COUNTY

How courts have described this case

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• holding in the government context that the apex doctrine “is equally applicable to former agency heads and high-ranking officials in circumstances such as these involving past official conduct”
• holding in the government context that the apex doctrine “is equally applicable to former agency heads and high-ranking officials in circumstances such as these involving past official conduct”
• noting that “[djepartment heads and similarly high-ranking officials should not ordinarily be compelled to testify unless it has been established that the testimony to be elicited is necessary and relevant and unavailable from a lesser ranking officer”
• “Orders granting discovery requests have traditionally been reviewed by certiorari because once discovery is wrongfully granted, the complaining party is beyond relief.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).