Fox News and Dominion Voting Systems are set to go to trial in their contentious $1.6 billion lawsuit over defamation claims after a judge declined to rule sooner Friday—but while the judge in the case left it up to a jury to decide if Fox committed defamation, he ruled claims made on the network about 2020 election fraud involving Dominion voting machines were clearly false.
Delaware Superior Court Judge Eric Davis denied motions by Fox News and Dominion for summary judgment—which would have meant the case was decided without a trial—but did rule on Dominion’s allegations that claims made about its voting machines on Fox News were false.
Dominion sued Fox in March 2021, alleging the right-wing network had defamed the voting company by pushing election fraud claims involving its machines despite knowing they were false, claiming Fox continued making the fraud claims for their own gain and to stop viewers from going to further-right networks like Newsmax and One America News.
The voting company asked the judge to issue summary judgment and rule in its favor to avoid the hassle of going to trial, in a court filing that gained national attention for containing dozens of quotes from Fox News anchors and high-level executives suggesting they did not believe the fraud claims.
Fox also asked the court to rule in the case ahead of trial, arguing the judge should find Fox did not commit defamation because on-air statements about election fraud were merely...
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