Courts Weigh Showing Necessary for "Apex" Depositions.

The article discusses a court case pending in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee, near Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA ), in which a federal magistrate judge ordered the chief executive officer (CEO) of the Tennessee Valley Authority to appear for deposition in a litigation associated with the failure of a power plant's ash waste dike. The magistrate judge ruled that the CEO's public statements about the settlement were part of his job.