Dominion’s defamation case against Fox poised for trial after delay

by Jack Queen and Helen Coster

The$ 1.6 billion defamation lawsuit filed by Dominion Voting Systems against Fox Corp. and Fox News is scheduled to begin in court on Tuesday. The jury selection process is expected to be finished by Tuesday, and opening statements will be made during the trial, which will pit one of the most prestigious media outlets in the world against another.

Since Fox made incorrect claims that the Denver-based Dominion’s’s ballot-counting devices were used to set the 2020 U.S. presidential election in favor of Democrat Joe Biden over Democratic then-President Donald Trump, expectation has been building for this time.

The judge will be chosen again at 9 a.m. EDT( 1300 GMT ) in Wilmington following the one-day hold that Delaware Superior Court Judge Eric Davis ordered. It is anticipated that the system will move along easily, opening the door for attorneys from the two sides to address the 12-member panel.

The fact that Fox Corp president and 92-year-old press mogul Rupert Murdoch, as well as a parade of Fox professionals like CEO Suzanne Scott and on-air hosts like Tucker Carlson, Sean Hannity, and Jeanine Pirro, are scheduled to testify during the test adds to the theater.

The reason for the 24-hour pause was not disclosed by the judge, but two places told Reuters that Fox and Dominion had been holding last-minute village deals. Fox and Dominion might still be able to resolve the dispute. Dominion is already requesting punitive damages in any degree that jurors deem right, so Fox faces a potentially sizable view.

Dominion filed a lawsuit against Fox Corp and Fox News in 2021, claiming that the fake vote-rigging allegations made by the powerful United cable news store known for its roster of liberal commentators destroyed its business.

The jury’s’s main concern will be whether Fox intentionally disseminated false information or carelessly ignored the truth, which Dominion must demonstrate in order for a defamation case to be judged on the basis of” actual malice.” According to a flurry of internal communications, Dominion claims that Fox employees — from Murdoch to newsroom staff — knew the statements were false but continued to air them out of concern that they would lose viewers to media rivals on the right.

According to Dominion and Fox, the trial will determine whether Fox’s’s reporting straddled the line between ethical news and the achievement of ratings. Fox has presented itself as a supporter of press rights in the pre-trial altercation.

The stakes are sometimes higher given that Smartmatic, a U.S. voting technology company, is suing Fox for libel and seeking redress of$ 2.7 billion in court in New York.

Fox deemed Dominion’s’s$ 1.6 billion problems claim to be unfounded and based on poor financial modeling. Fox’s’s coverage was blamed for dozens of lost arrangements, according to an expert report commissioned by Dominion, though much of the state is still under cover.

Fox asserted in a filing on Sunday that Dominion had agreed to reduce its damages claim by more than$ 500 million. A Dominion spokesman refuted that assertion and stated that the company’s’s liability promise had not changed.

Last year, Fox Corp. reported annual revenue of almost$ 14 billion.

Fox programs like” Sunday Morning Futures ,”” Lou Dobbs Tonight ,” and” Justice with Judge Jeanine” featured defamatory statements made about it by Dominion.

Dominion has already provided proof that some visitors and companies, including former Trump lawyers Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell, believed the visitors spreading the false statements could not support their claims.

Fox had argued that reporting on the vote-rigging allegations was by definition significant and covered by the First Amendment’s’s protection for press rights under the U.S. Constitution. That discussion was rejected by Davis next month in a decision.

( Reporting from Wilmington by Helen Coster and New York by Jack Queen, with editing by Will Dunham )

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