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In civil litigation of this magnitude, compelled financial disclosure operates as its own bottleneck.
A plaintiff seeking damages in the tens of billions needs to establish that the defendant can actually pay, and that inquiry opens the door to discovery of trust structures and financial holdings that principals would otherwise keep private.
A US court has agreed to an emergency stay on exactly that process, pausing the release of financial details in the $10bn defamation case brought against the BBC by President Trump's investment trust.
The mechanics of the stay An emergency stay is a court order that freezes a procedural requirement while a legal challenge works its way through the system.
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