A Delaware judge has ruled Dominion Voting Systems can call Fox Corp. executives Rupert and Lachlan Murdoch as witnesses to testify during a jury trial as part of its $1.6 Billion lawsuit against Fox News.
In a new development, lawyers for Dominion asked Delaware Superior Court Judge Eric Davis to allow them to call the Murdochs as live witnesses during the trial, which is slated to begin later this month.
Davis last week tossed out Fox’s latest attempt to throw out the suit and ruled that Dominion had proven the first key elements of their defamation claim: that the network’s statements about Dominion and the 2020 election were false.
Davis also ruled last week that a jury was needed to decide whether Fox operated with actual malice, or reckless disregard for the truth, another key legal hurdle Dominion needs to clear in order to prove defamation.
Dominion Voting Systems sued Fox News for $1.6 billion alleging the cable news giant intentionally aired false claims about the company being made by former President Trump and his supporters during the 2020 election.
Fox has moved to have the case brought against it by Dominion dismissed on First Amendment grounds.
“Dominion’s lawsuit has always been more about what will generate headlines than what can withstand legal and factual scrutiny, as illustrated by them now being forced to slash their fanciful damages demand by more than half a billion dollars after their own expert debunked its implausible claims,” the network said in a statement on Monday evening. “Their summary judgment motion took an extreme, unsupported view of defamation law that would prevent journalists from basic reporting and their efforts to publicly smear Fox for covering and commenting on allegations by a sitting President of the United States should be recognized for what it is: a blatant violation of the First Amendment.”
Dominion has cheap software that can be easily hacked by anybody. Many States have proven that dominion is not the best machine for voting! Paper ballots are better than the inconsistency of problems dominion machines computers are having. It appears like that happened in the 2020 election. This law suite seems like a back door to try to get another conservative new station off the air. Fox news just spoke the shocking truth of an election gone wrong. Its all of our 1st Amendment right to say so! What’s wrong with a judge who doesn’t respect the Constitution?
What’s wrong is they are paid by people like George soros.
Bribes, payoff, kickback to Judge to win for Dominion
Seems like Dominion like most on the Left disregard the 1st Amendment unless they want to use it to protect themselves !