Hillsborough, N.C. — A Superior Court judge ordered Wednesday that a deposition given by the mistress of two-time Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards be sealed for at least 45 days.

Judge Allen Baddour said attorneys for Rielle Hunter and Andrew Young would then have to agree on wha tsegments of Hunter's testimony could be made public.

Hunter, a former campaign worker who gave birth to Edwards' daughter, sued Young,once a top aide to Edwards, in January, claiming that he took a videotape that purportedly shows Edwards engaged in extramarital sex andphotographs of him with his daughter.

Hunter says that the itemswere removed from a house Young rented for her in Chatham County, andshe alleges that Young wanted the video and photos to gener ate publicity or "The Politician," his tell-all book about Edwards' affair.

Young asked the the suit be dismissed because Hunter repeatedly canceled appointments to give her deposition.