The case against Fox News by Dominion Voting Systems is heating up just days before the trial is set to begin on Monday.
Jury selection in the $1.6bn defamation lawsuit over the 2020 presidential election results begins today. But in the past 24 hours, a new Rudy Giuliani recording has further complicated Fox’s defense. And on Wednesday, the judge overseeing the case sanctioned Fox News, handing the ballot-machine company a fresh chance to gather evidence after Fox withheld records until the eve of trial, a person present during Wednesday’s court hearing said.
Delaware superior court judge Eric Davis said he would also very likely tap an outside investigator to look into Fox’s late disclosure of the evidence and take whatever steps necessary to remedy the situation, which he described as troubling, the source said.
It was not immediately clear whether Dominion would seek new depositions.
Fox said in a statement that it “produced the supplemental information” to Dominion “when we first learned it”.
The evidence at issue included recordings a former Fox employee made of Giuliani, a lawyer for former president Donald Trump, saying before pretaped Fox appearances that he did not have any evidence to back up the false allegations of election rigging by Dominion in the 2020 race that are at the heart of the lawsuit.
Dominion sued Fox News and parent company Fox Corp in 2021. It accused them of ruining its reputation by airing false claims by Trump and his lawyers that the...
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