Camero v. United States

How later courts describe this case

• attorney, who represented agency at hearing reviewing agency’s discharge of employee, engaged in on-going ex parte discussion of case with officials who reviewed that hearing committee’s recommendation
• Army Regulations implicitly forbade representative of removing agency to communicate his recommendation privately to decision makers in adversary hearing.
• “one of the fundamental premises inherent in the concept of an adversary hearing ... is that neither adversary be permitted to engage in an ex parte communication concerning the merits of the case with those responsible for the decision”