Ramada Inns, Inc. v. Dow Jones & Co., Inc.

TAYLOR, Judge.

Plaintiffs seek to take the deposition of two attorneys, Gregory L. Diskant, Esq., who is head counsel for Dow Jones & Company, Inc. [defendant] in this suit, and Robert S. Sack, Esq., who is general counsel of defendant.

This is a libel suit growing out of articles written by James A. Drinkhall and John Andrews and published by defendant in the Wall Street Journal [Journal]. Plaintiffs seek, by these depositions, to establish what facts were communicated to the management and/or editors of the Journal regarding Mr. Drinkhall’s reporting policies and manner of performance as a…