The federal judge who granted Paula Deen a big legal victory this week could have spared the celebrity chef much of the negative publicity she has endured this summer had he not taken what two Atlanta discrimination lawyers say was an unusual action.
In January, Senior U.S. District Judge William T. Moore Jr. denied without explanation a motion to postpone discovery in the race discrimination and sex harassment case brought against Deen and her brother by one of their restaurant managers.
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