Future of Murdoch empire comes down to a court in Nevada

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Over the next few weeks, the future course of one of the most powerful media empires on the planet will depend on secret proceedings set to take place inside a domed, Beaux-Arts-style courthouse in downtown Reno, Nev.

There the most powerful person in the room will be not the builder of that empire — K. Rupert Murdoch, a man who has made and broken leaders across the globe — but a mild-mannered county probate commissioner, Edmund J. Gorman Jr., who does much of his work without fanfare in his high-desert city.

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