Fox News & Dominion Reach Settlement In Defamation Lawsuit Over False Election Rigging Claims
deadline.comFox News has settled Dominion Voting Systems’ $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit against the Rupert Murdoch-owned organization, averting a lengthy, expensive and certain to be embarrassing trial. “The parties have resolved their case,” Delaware Superior Court judge, Eric M.
Davis just told the court, offering no details. The settlement was made public right before Wall Street ceased trading for the day.
No details of the deal have been made public, yet. Following a flurry of post-lunch break activity Tuesday in and out of Judge Davis’s chambers, the agreement comes soon after the 12-person jury was seated, a special master had been appointed to probe Fox compliance.
Opening statements were set to begin late this morning Pacific time, but that plan went awry as spectators sat in the courtroom for nearly two hours with no idea what was going down.
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