Request For 10-Day Notice Of Ex Parte Interviews Denied In N.Y. Federal Court

( August 17, 2026, 8:27 AM EDT) -- ROCHESTER, N.Y. — Denying a “request for entry of a protective order requiring ten days’ advance notice before engaging in communications with an opponent’s former employees” in a putative class action over alleged antitrust violations, a New York federal magistrate judge said in part that the movants’ “generalized concerns regarding potential exposure to privileged information do not satisfy their burden in this context.”...