As a private citizen, former Education Secretary Betsy DeVos can no longer avoid answering questions in a class action claiming her policies permanently damaged the finances of student borrowers defrauded by for-profit colleges.
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Over two years after he embarrassed Roy Moore in a prank interview featuring a purported pedophile-detection wand, Sacha Baron Cohen will have to sit for an hour of questioning in the former Alabama judge’s defamation case,
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Ivanka Trump has been deposed by attorneys alleging that President Donald Trump’s 2017 inauguration committee misused donor funds, a new court filing reveals.
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PHILADELPHIA (CN) — Labeled a sexually violent predator on the evidence of witness testimony spanning decades, Bill Cosby told Pennsylvania’s
Read moreAn appeals court in Texas granted mandamus relief to Baylor University, which claimed the trial court improperly ordered the deposition of the university’s president in a lawsuit brought by a student who claimed she was sexually assaulted in 2017 by multiple football players. The student failed to show the president had “unique or superior personal knowledge” that the school’s campus was unsafe.
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More than a dozen files whose disclosure Ghislaine Maxwell fought bitterly to keep under wraps became public on Thursday morning, including a deposition in which prosecutors say she perjures herself.
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A Second Circuit panel appeared wary Tuesday of keeping Ghislaine Maxwell’s old civil deposition testimony under wraps as she goes to trial for her role in the Jeffrey Epstein sex-trafficking web.
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Subpoenaed as part of the New York attorney general’s investigation, Eric Trump failed Wednesday to put off being interviewed about how the president’s assets were described on financial statements that the Trump Organization used to secure loans and various tax benefits.
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California state courts will continue to allow litigants to serve documents electronically as well as conduct remote depositions under a pandemic-relief bill approved by lawmakers on the final day of the legislative session.
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Ex-Victoria’s Secret CEO Leslie Wexner may still have to take the hot seat to talk about accused sex-trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, Harvard professor Alan Dershowitz and the woman who implicated all three of the men in the scandal.
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The day after the release of dozens of files in her case, Jeffrey Epstein’s accused accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell scored a win Friday in her quest to delay the release of a deposition said to incriminate her.
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Skewering Ghislaine Maxwell’s “eleventh-hour” request to block the release of her deposition, a federal judge on Wednesday found little substance to the jailed socialite’s claim that her criminal case provides a new reason for secrecy.
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An architect of the brutal CIA interrogation and detention program developed after the Sept. 11 attacks defended the agency and its practices on Tuesday as those techniques become the focus of an effort to dismiss key evidence against five men charged in the terrorist plot.
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Impeachment inquiry witness David Holmes, a U.S. diplomat in Ukraine who overheard a phone call between President Donald Trump and U.S. Ambassador to the EU Gordon Sondland, said during a closed-door deposition last week that he had “never seen anything” like it, according to a transcript released Monday night.
Read moreAgainst escalating resistance from the White House, the House continues its impeachment probe of President Donald Trump with testimony Tuesday from a U.S. diplomat who had strong words for Trump’s dealings with Ukraine.
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Facing scrutiny about his role in Ukraine dealings that have driven a campaign to impeach President Donald Trump, Energy Secretary Rick Perry will resign his office. Before that can happen, the clock for Perry to answer a House subpoena runs down Friday.
Read moreSpeaking during a deposition in Democrats’ impeachment inquiry, the former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine told House investigators Friday that she was forced out of her position in May after President Donald Trump pressured State Department officials to remove her.
Read moreEmbattled National Rifle Association board member and former president Oliver North will be deposed Tuesday morning in a New York state investigation without NRA lawyers present, to the consternation of the gun-rights group.
Read moreShe told the lawyers about flying in a helicopter with Bill, and how Jeffrey Epstein boasted about his friendship with Donald.
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