The judge presiding over a voting machine company's defamation lawsuit against Fox denied the company's request Wednesday to hold separate trials - one for Fox News and another for the network's parent company.
The request by Dominion Voting Systems came a day after its attorneys told the judge that Fox attorneys had withheld critical information about the role company founder Rupert Murdoch, who is chairman of Fox. Corp., played at Fox News.
Murdoch’s role and that of other top Fox executives is at the heart of Dominion’s $1.6 billion defamation case, which alleges that Fox damaged the company by repeatedly airing false allegations that its machines and the software they used rigged the 2020 presidential election against former President Donald Trump.
In a statement, Fox said Murdoch has been listed as executive chairman of Fox News in SEC filings since 2019. Fox attorneys also noted during Wednesday’s pretrial hearing that Dominion attorneys, using a publicly available proxy statement, had asked Murdoch at his deposition if he was executive chair at Fox News.
Fox attorneys have said Murdoch’s title at Fox News was “honorific,” and that he has had no role in day-to-day management of Fox News.
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