With former President Donald Trump fewer than two weeks from a scheduled deposition in writer E. Jean Carroll’s defamation suit against him, U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan of the Southern District of New York on Friday told attorneys for both parties to expect a ruling “soon” on Trump’s motion for a stay in the case.

“You will have a decision fairly shortly, but there is no stay in effect, and I expect both sides to fully satisfy their discovery obligations and their commitments, unless and until there is a stay,” Kaplan said.