The judge overseeing Dominion Voting Systems' defamation suit against Fox News ruled Friday that the case will go to trial, rebuffing efforts by Fox to have it dismissed.
against Fox News, in a major ruling Friday, ordered that the case will go to trial, rebuffing efforts by Fox to have it dismissed before a Delaware jury is seated in mid-April.false conspiracy theories about the voting machine company in the wake of the 2020 election, in order to combat concerns over ratings and viewer retention.
On Friday, Delaware Superior Court Judge Eric Davis shot down Fox News' arguments and found Dominion's legal claims compelling enough to present to jurors at trial, which is scheduled to begin in the coming weeks. But the judge granted part of Dominion's summary judgment motion on defamation per se and falsity -- ruling that the statements that Fox presented were, in fact, false. The issue of actual malice and damages will head to the jury.CRYSTAL clear that none of the statements relating to Dominion about the 2020 election are true," Davis wrote in his ruling on Friday.
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