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E-Mail Puts N.Y. Times Publisher in Deposition Seat

Posted Sep 3, 2008, 05:31 pm CDT
By Martha Neil

Add another well-known name to the list of those unhappy about e-mail communications. Arthur Sulzberger Jr., publisher of the New York Times, is going to have to testify in a defamation suit filed in New Jersey against one of the newspaper's reporters by Donald Trump, over a book the reporter wrote about the real estate mogul.

While Sulzberger apparently didn't do anything wrong, and the suit doesn't name him or the newspaper as a defendant, only the book's publisher and author, Sulzberger tried to avoid giving a deposition. However, the New York Supreme Court ruled that he has to show for it and discuss an e-mail exchange with the author, Timothy O'Brien, and a 2005 lunch at which he, the… Continue reading...

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