Rupert Murdoch ‘s deposition in Donald Trump ‘s $10 billion defamation lawsuit against the media mogul and The Wall Street Journal likely will not be happening any time soon.

Late on Monday, attorneys for both sides in the case filed a joint stipulation that they would not engage in discovery in the case until a judge decides whether to grant the defendants’ motion to dismiss, which has not yet been filed.

Trump sued Murdoch, the Journal, News Corp. and others after the WSJ published a report on a letter in Trump’s name that was included in an album given to Jeffrey Epstein for his 50th birthday in 2003. The letter, the Journal reported, “contains several lines of typewritten text framed by the outline of a naked woman, which appears to be hand-drawn with a heavy marker,”

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