Judge Orders Trump to Sit for Dec. 11 Deposition in $10 Billion BBC Suit
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Updated · The Guardian · Oct 22
Judge Orders Trump to Sit for Dec. 11 Deposition in $10 Billion BBC Suit
3 articles · Updated · The Guardian · Oct 22
Summary
Dec. 11 is now Trump’s court-ordered deposition deadline in his $10 billion lawsuit against the BBC, with a federal judge warning noncompliance could bring sanctions up to dismissal.
Judge Enjoliqué Lett said Trump’s team had produced virtually no meaningful internal records before the Dec. 18 discovery cutoff, gave plaintiffs 30 days to turn over relevant documents, and called it their “last opportunity” to comply.
A previously scheduled Oct. 16 deposition was canceled by Trump’s lawyers for “matters of national importance”; Lett also rejected their bid to block videotaping, though the recording will be limited to case attorneys.
Lett separately allowed the BBC’s subpoena to Mar-a-Lago to proceed, finding the club intertwined enough with Trump’s professional reputation to fall within discovery in the case over a Panorama documentary tied to Jan. 6.