Opening arguments are set to begin in Delaware in Dominion Voting Systems' defamation lawsuit against Fox News.
of behind-the-scenes negotiations between Fox and Dominion, cast doubt on whether the case would even make it to trial.
And the two parties clashed Monday on how much money is actually at stake, with Fox stating Dominion had slashed its damages claim from an original amount of $1.6 billion and Dominion holding firm that"the damages claim remains."that the statements flagged by Dominion were, indeed, false."The evidence developed in this civil proceeding demonstrates that is CRYSTAL clear that none of the Statements relating to Dominion about the 2020 election are true," Davis wrote.
His ruling clarified that the trial jury will determine who is responsible for publishing the false claims, and if those people acted with actual malice. That legal standard means proving that the claims were published with the knowledge they were false, or with reckless disregard for the truth.The judge ruled earlier this month that the 92-year-old Murdoch and his son, Fox Corp. CEO Lachlan Murdoch, can bein court.
And in a pretrial hearing last week, Davis sanctioned Fox and its parent company for withholding evidence from Dominion during the discovery process,Recordings made by former Fox producer Abby Grossberg in 2020, which allegedly show Giuliani and Fox host Maria Bartiromo talking about voting software, were not handed over to Dominion, according to NBC. Grossberglast month, alleging she was coerced into giving misleading testimony in the Dominion case.
A Fox spokeswoman said after the hearing that it had"produced the supplemental information from Ms. Grossberg when we first learned it."Kevin Breuninger reported from Wilmington, Delaware. Lillian Rizzo reported from Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey.
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