DIANE P. WOOD, Circuit Judge.
Contacts between lawyers and "represented parties" raise some of the thornier issues in the area of legal ethics. This case turns on one variant of the problem: whether a provision of the Federal Employers' Liability Act (FELA), 45 U.S.C. §§ 51-60, overrides an ethical rule adopted by the federal district court that prohibits attorneys from contacting parties represented by other counsel under the circumstances presented here...
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