• Smartmatic is resuming its defamation lawsuit against Sidney Powell.
• A New York judge dismissed the lawsuit for jurisdictional reasons earlier this month.
• But Smartmatic filed a backup lawsuit in Washington, DC, that it's moving forward with.

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Smartmatic is pursuing its defamation lawsuit against conspiracy theorist Sidney Powell — just in a different court than it initially planned.

The election technology company included Powell — a lawyer who pursued several failed lawsuits that alleged Smartmatic and rival company Dominion manipulated the results of the 2020 election against then-President Donald Trump and in favor of now-President Joe Biden — as a defendant in a wide-ranging, $2.7 billion defamation lawsuit filed in February 2021. The lawsuit, filed in New York state court, was filed against Powell, fellow 2020 election conspiracy theorist Rudy Giuliani, Fox News, and several Fox News hosts.

On March 8, New York State Supreme Court Judge David B. Cohen tossed out the portions of the lawsuit. He denied the claims against Powell, in particular, on jurisdictional grounds, ruling that her false claims about Smartmatic rigging the election weren't sufficiently...

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