FAKE NEWS EXPOSED: A Service of PoliticalChat.com

[finnbow]

A judge in Delaware has ordered a jury trial in Dominion Voting Systems’ blockbuster lawsuit against Fox News, setting the stage for one of the most consequential defamation decisions against an American media company in decades.

Delaware Superior Court Judge Eric Davis rejected Fox’s attempt to throw out the suit ahead of trial, and he ruled that Dominion has proven the first elements of their defamation claim: namely, that the network’s statements about Dominion and the 2020 election were false.

But he ruled that a jury must decide whether Fox operated with actual malice.

“The evidence developed in this civil proceeding demonstrates that is CRYSTAL clear than none of the Statements relating to Dominion about the 2020 election are true. Therefore, the Court will grant summary judgment in favor of Dominion on the element of falsity,” the ruling read.

The network’s lawyers have defended the conservative cable news company on First Amendment grounds, saying the claims being made by Trump and his allies were newsworthy.

“Even if the neutral report privilege did apply, the evidence does not support that FNN conducted good-faith, disinterested reporting,” Davis wrote, also rejecting Fox’s other First Amendment defenses.

https://thehill.com/homenews/media/3...news-to-trial/

The court found the various statements made by Fox hosts and guests about the election were, in fact, false. The issue now is whether Fox knew they were false or acted with reckless disregard of whether they were false. It appears that Fox News is bigly fucked.

[finnbow]

Right-wing Twitter troll convicted of interfering in 2016 election through deceptive vote-by-text meme.

https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile...-by-text-meme/

Between Trump's indictment, Fox/Dominion lawsuit news and this wingnut being convicted, it's a bad Friday in MAGALand. Tucker Carlson regularly advocated for Mackey since he was arrested. Mackey has expressed white supremacist beliefs and he concocted a scheme that tricked people into believing they could vote via text. He targeted Black women specifically.

[finnbow]

“I’ve never seen a case before where journalists said they didn’t believe the story they were telling but were going to keep telling it because it’s what the audience wanted to hear,” said Lyrissa Lidsky, a professor of constitutional law at the University of Florida and an expert on defamation law.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/01/u...urt-cases.html

[donquixote99]

Originally Posted by finnbow

“I’ve never seen a case before where journalists said they didn’t believe the story they were telling but were going to keep telling it because it’s what the audience wanted to hear,” said Lyrissa Lidsky, a professor of constitutional law at the University of Florida and an expert on defamation law.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/01/u...urt-cases.html

I do not think persons who do that deserve the name 'journalist.'

[finnbow]

A Fox Corp shareholder alleged in the lawsuit that Murdoch and four board members failed to stop Fox News from reporting falsehoods about the 2020 U.S. presidential election that damaged its credibility.

https://news.yahoo.com/fox-sharehold...033059459.html

Also:

At least two firms have said publicly they were investigating potential breaches of fiduciary duty by Fox’s board across both lawsuits.

The Berger Montague law firm issued a notice March 6 that it was opening an “investigation into Fox’s board of directors for potential breaches of fiduciary duties to Fox and Fox’s shareholders” in the Dominion case.

Scott+Scott Attorneys at Law LLP has opened an investigation against the the company and its board for a potential breach of fiduciary duty, in the Smartmatic case.

https://news.bloomberglaw.com/esg/fo...to-fresh-risks

[Oerets]

Good!


The only thing thing they understand is money and profits. Start taking money away, losing the other......

Hit them where it hurts.

[finnbow]

In the Dominion defamation case about Fox News knowingly lying to its viewers, it appears that they also knowingly lied to the presiding judge. They could end up in even deeper shit than they already are in.

The judge overseeing Dominion Voting Systems’ massive defamation case against Fox News said Wednesday that he plans to appoint an outside attorney to investigate whether the right-wing network lied to the court to withhold key evidence, after repeatedly expressing exasperation and frustration with Fox’s attorneys.

“I am very concerned… that there have been misrepresentations to the court. This is very serious,” Delaware Superior Court Judge Eric Davis said Wednesday at a pretrial hearing in Wilmington.

The extraordinary move, on the brink of the trial starting next week, is the latest blow to Fox News as it tries to fend off the $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit that Dominion filed in the wake of the 2020 presidential election.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/12/media...ter/index.html

[Rajoo]

The Judge Eric Davis has sanctioned Fox News for their withholding information and lies.

In imposing the sanction on Fox, Judge Eric M. Davis of the Delaware Superior Court ruled that if Dominion had to do additional depositions, or redo any, then Fox would have to “do everything they can to make the person available, and it will be at a cost to Fox.”

He also said he would very likely appoint a special master — an outside lawyer — to investigate Fox’s handling of discovery of documents and the question of whether Fox had inappropriately withheld details about the scope of Rupert Murdoch’s role. Since Dominion filed its suit in early 2021, Fox had argued that Mr. Murdoch and Fox Corporation, the parent company, should not be part of the case because Mr. Murdoch, the chair, and other senior executives had nothing to do with running Fox News. But in the past few days, Fox disclosed to Dominion that Mr. Murdoch was a corporate officer at Fox News.

Are the Fox attorneys such rank amateurs lying in court on a matter that can easily be verified.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/12/b...anctioned.html

On the other hand the Judge Eric Davis seems to be enjoying mocking Fox and their attorneys a bit too much to the extent he may be prejudicing his case.

There is still a risk (to the sane) that Dominion will settle this out of court and Fox's sins and lies will be buried forever.

“I could have a lot of fun with this case,” the judge said Tuesday, as he riffed about opportunities that Dominion lawyers might have cross-examining witnesses.

And Davis even snarked a bit amid discussion of Maria Bartiromo, a longtime Fox host who appears in several broadcasts at issue in the lawsuit — and whose emails show a clear allegiance to Trump. “She’s clearly neutral,” the judge deadpanned on Wednesday. The assembled lawyers and journalists didn’t know how to react, prompting the judge to say, “I’m being sarcastic.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opini...etrial-brutal/

[Chicks]

Faux "News" has covered the absurd Bud Light controversy far more than the Texas abortion pill ruling
https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-new...on-pill-ruling

I sure hope Faux is forced to pay $billions to the voting machine co's...

[Rajoo]

Oh Oh, does not sound good from my vantage point.

The presiding Judge Davis has notified of a delay of one day in the Dominion Fox case, possibly due to last minute negotiations on a settlement. If this case does get settled, the entire Faux episode will be buried, which will not be a good outcome for our democracy.

No reason was officially given for the delay, which was announced Sunday evening by the judge overseeing the case. Jury selection had been scheduled to conclude on Monday and then both sides were expected to give opening statements, kicking off a weeks-long trial.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/media...ominion-trial/