Reuters
By Helen Coster and Jack Queen
(Reuters) - New filings from Dominion Voting Systems and Fox News are expected to become public Monday, as an April trial approaches in the $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit brought by the voting technology company against the U.S. cable news giant over its coverage of the 2020 presidential election.
In the filings, each side opposes the other's motion for summary judgment, or a ruling in their favor that would preempt the need for a trial. Dominion sued Fox News Networks and parent company Fox Corp in March 2021 and November 2021 in Delaware Superior Court, alleging the cable TV network amplified false claims that Dominion voting machines were used to rig the 2020 election against former President Donald Trump, a Republican who lost to Democratic rival Joe Biden.
Dominion has argued that internal communications and depositions by Fox personnel prove the network knowingly spread falsehoods about Trump's loss in the 2020 U.S. presidential election in order to bolster its ratings. Fox has argued that its coverage of claims by Trump's lawyers were inherently newsworthy and protected by the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.
Dominion’s motion for summary judgment was replete with emails and statements in which Fox Corp Chairman Rupert Murdoch and other top Fox executives say the claims made about Dominion on-air were false – part of the voting machine company’s effort to prove the network either knew the statements it aired were...
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