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[RickeyM]

FAUX will do all in it's power to get a settlement. A settlement would cut the legs off a Smartmatic suit. Hopefully Dominion will hold fast and take it to trial.

[Oerets]

Any settlement better have a admission of wrong doing on FQX's part. Something to clear Dominion's name in public.

FQX could offer the full $ amount asked for and have it remain secret as part of any deal.

[Rajoo]

Dominion has an opportunity to expand their name recognition globally by not settling and fight Fox in court. The respect they will earn in the western world by winning will be priceless. Fox wins by settling and Dominion loses IMO. But money tends to make problems go away and its a 50-50 proposition for now.

[finnbow]

[Chicks]

GEORGETOWN, DELAWARE (The Borowitz Report)—With Fox News Channel’s defamation trial set for this week, the network’s lawyers intend to cite its hiring of Kimberly Guilfoyle as the linchpin of an insanity defense.

Although such a defense is highly unorthodox in a civil case, Fox’s lawyers believe that the decision to put Guilfoyle on the air is conclusive proof that the network’s brass cannot be held responsible for their actions.

According to those familiar with the legal strategy, Fox’s lawyers plan to show the jury Guilfoyle’s ear-splitting performance at the 2020 Republican National Convention in its entirety.

At the conclusion of the video, they will ask the jurors if the executives who considered Guilfoyle an acceptable TV presence could possibly be deemed sane.

“Pleading insanity is a desperate gambit that almost never succeeds,” Professor Davis Logsdon, of the University of Minnesota Law School, said. “But this Kimberly Guilfoyle thing looks like a slam dunk.”

[Rajoo]

The court case is on folks, set begin at 9am tomorrow and jury selection will continue.

Judge says trial for Dominion case against Fox will proceed Tuesday

https://www.axios.com/2023/04/17/jud...roceed-tuesday

And in an interesting subset.

April 17 (Reuters) - Fox Corp shareholders are demanding company records that may show whether directors and executives properly oversaw Fox News' coverage of former President Donald Trump's election-rigging claims, sources told Reuters, in what could be a prelude to lawsuits seeking to make directors liable for costs.

Investors are using provisions in Delaware corporate law to demand internal Fox records to investigate how Fox's leaders acted as its Fox News network aired segments on Trump's false claims that he lost the 2020 presidential election due to voter fraud, two sources confirmed.

In moves not previously reported, shareholders are looking for records such as board minutes, emails and texts that may contain evidence that Fox directors and executives were derelict by allowing the network to air the false claims.

https://www.reuters.com/legal/fox-in...rs-2023-04-17/

[RickeyM]

Originally Posted by Rajoo

The court case is on folks, set begin at 9am tomorrow and jury selection will continue.

Judge says trial for Dominion case against Fox will proceed Tuesday

https://www.axios.com/2023/04/17/jud...roceed-tuesday

And in an interesting subset.



https://www.reuters.com/legal/fox-in...rs-2023-04-17/

[Chicks]

WILMINGTON, DELAWARE (The Borowitz Report)—Fox News Channel’s much anticipated defamation trial was unexpectedly delayed after the network’s anchors required five hours to have their makeup done.

Tucker Carlson and Sean Hannity, both expected to testify during the proceedings, were behind closed doors having what was described as “several substantial coats” of foundation, bronzer, and blush slathered onto their faces.

Judge Eric Davis called the delay “unacceptable,” reminding Fox’s attorneys that the trial was not even being televised.

But Dan Webb, Fox’s lead attorney, argued that, without their makeup, “Mr. Hannity and Mr. Carlson would be totally unrecognizable to the jury.”

The trial suffered yet another delay when the anchors finally entered the courtroom and three jurors passed out from hair-spray fumes.

[RickeyM]

Now that's what I call hostile witnesses.

[donquixote99]

News just broke that the Fox-Dominion lawsuit is settled. No details yet.