Trump scores big legal win against Pulitzer Prize board members as lawsuit moves to discovery
Pulitzer Prize board communications will not be protected from discovery in the landmark case
President Donald Trump scored a significant legal win Monday in his lawsuit against the members of the Pulitzer Prize Board, paving the way towards the discovery phase in their courtroom battle.
Last week, the board members filed a motion for Protective Order Governing Discovery in hopes of shielding their internal communications involving the decision to award The New York Times and The Washington Post a Pulitzer Prize for their reporting on Russiagate during Trump's first term in office.
Judge Robert L. Pegg of the 19th Judicial Circuit Court in Okeechobee County, Florida, stuck down their motion.
"The rule requires 'an affirmative showing of annoyance, embarrassment, oppression, or undue burden or expense' from such party or person… Defendants have failed to meet this requirement, as there is no factual support in the record demonstrating that any defendant, much less each defendant, would be subject to annoyance, embarrassment, oppression, or undue burden or expense if a protective order is not entered," Pegg wrote in his filing.
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