KAHN v. SUPERIOR COURT

Docket No. H002347.

188 Cal.App.3d 752 (1987)

233 Cal. Rptr. 662

HAROLD KAHN, Petitioner, v. THE SUPERIOR COURT OF SANTA CLARA COUNTY, Respondent; IVOR DAVIES, Real Party in Interest.

Court of Appeals of California, Sixth District.

January 9, 1987.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Jerome B. Falk, Jr., Steven L. Mayer, Marla J. Miller, Howard, Rice, Nemerovski, Canady, Robertson & Falk, John Schwartz and Iris Brest for Petitioner.

No appearance for Respondent.

Paul N. McCloskey, Jr., Peter P. Chen, Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison and Marc H. Greenberg for Real Party in Interest.


OPINION

BRAUER, J.

Petitioner Harold Kahn, a tenured professor of history at Stanford University, seeks an extraordinary writ to prevent the taking of his deposition. He claims a privilege founded on the concept of academic freedom. The principal question before us is this: When a university faculty department meets in private to consider an academic appointment or tenure issue, is...

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