Dallas-Vinson & Elkins partner William Sims Jr. was ready and waiting bright and early on Dec. 12. He’d written his deposition questions. He’d hired extra building security. Then, to his delight, the directors from the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development, who had been accused by the federal government of sponsoring terrorists in Israel, stood him up.

For the HLF, the decision to have its directors skip scheduled deposition appearances-and abandon its defamation claims against The Dallas Morning News and its parent company, the A.H. Belo Corp.

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