Dominion is seeking $1.6B in compensation after Fox News refused to retract its false statements about the company rigging votes in the 2020 election.
Dominion Voting Systems' $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit against Fox News is entering a new phase. Lawyers at the Superior Court in Wilmington, Delaware, are choosing members of the jury ahead of the trial's opening statements Monday.
Judge Eric Davis has already ruled that Fox's reporting on air about the company was not factual. Now, Dominion's lawyers must convince a jury that the coverage was defamation. "What they still have to do is persuade the jury that Fox, or any of the other defendants in the case, acted with such reckless disregard for the truth that they either knew they were lying, or were such bad journalists that they shouldn't even be accorded the kinds of First Amendment protection that we give to ordinary journalists," Neuborne said.
Fox contends the allegations against Dominion were at the time newsworthy and are protected by the first amendment. But the release of text messages from some of the most prominent on-air talent cast doubt on just how earnest those concerns really were.
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