Eric Davis, the Delaware Superior Court judge, imposed a sanction on Fox News Wednesday for withholding evidence in Dominion Voting Systems’ $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit.
, reporting from Wilmington, Delaware. Grossberg’s recordings from 2020, “which Dominion said had been turned over only a week ago,” were part of the presentation, according to the. “We keep on learning about more relevant information from individuals other than Fox,” Dominion lawyertold the court. “And to be honest we don’t really know what to do about that, but that is the situation we find ourselves in.”during this week’s pretrial hearings.
In an emailed statement on Tuesday, Fox said Murdoch “has been listed as executive chairman of FOX News in our SEC filings since 2019 and this filing was referenced by Dominion’s own attorney during his deposition.” Davis’ decision to sanction Fox News is a stunning development just days before the massive defamation trial is set to begin. The judge also said Wednesday that he plans to appoint a special master to look into whether Fox made “untrue or negligent” assertions to the court when it said that Murdoch did not have any role in Fox News and was only an officer at Fox Corp, and when it said it had fulfilled all of its obligations in the discovery process, CNN.
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