In what may be a novel ruling in the state, a Manhattan Supreme Court judge has granted a protective order to four women suing a former gynecologist for alleged sexual abuse, disallowing the former gynecologist—and related entity defendants, including Columbia University—from possessing the women’s upcoming videotaped depositions for any amount of time.

The ruling by Justice Lucy Billings does allow the defendants, including the former gynecologist, Robert Hadden, to view and listen to the video and audio deposition recordings. But the recordings must stay in the “exclusive possession, custody, and control” of the suit’s defense and plaintiff lawyers, wrote Billings in a decision that covered the recordings issue in two long paragraphs.

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