Project Veritas Prepares to Depose New York Times After New York Supreme Court Ruling

The New York Times' masthead is displayed in front of the midtown headquarters in New York City on Dec. 7, 2009. Mario Tama/Getty Images

The journalism nonprofit Project Veritas can depose New York Times employees in what could become a landmark case for defamation, a New York Supreme Court judge ruled on Aug. 12.

State Supreme Court Justice Charles Wood had sided on March 20 against the newspaper’s request to dismiss a lawsuit from Project Veritas over stories that the watchdog organization says defamed it.