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83x5: Former Government Employee Testifying when Government is a Party

March 29, 1983

A former Government employee would not be barred by 18 U.S.C. § 207(a) or (b) from being an expert witness in litigation where the United States was a defendant and another defendant wished to use the employee as an expert when the employee's work for the government was not a particular matter involving a specific party or parties.

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