A last second regulation was concluded in the historic defamation trial of Dominion Voting Systems against Fox News, the parties announced on Tuesday.
The regulations were apparently negotiated while the trial was on the verge of opening declarations in Wilmington, Delaware.
After having sworn in the jury Tuesday earlier, an unexplained delay of several hours interrupted the procedure in court, which once again launched creeping speculations according to which an agreement was quietly in the work.
What it means: The last minute agreement means that the case of closely monitoring is finished and will not proceed to the trial. By settling down with Dominion, influential Fox News executives and eminent air personalities will be spared from testifying to their electoral coverage in 2020, which was filled with lies on electoral fraud.
The details of the regulations were not immediately available and could never become public.
More about the case: In his trial, Dominion asked for $ 1.6 billion in Fox News damages. The right -wing network highly argued in the preliminary procedure that this number was inflated and failed to capture the potential losses that Dominion could have undergone following Fox’s emissions in 2020.
Fox News and Fox Corporation – His parent company, who was also a defendant – say that they have never defamed Dominion, and say that the case is an assault without merit against press freedoms. They denied Dominion’s assertion that they had promoted these electoral plots to save their drops in decline after the 2020 elections.
Although the case of Dominion is now finished, Fox News is still faced with a second major defamation trial in SmartMatic, another voting technology company that was coated with Fox shows after the 2020 elections. This case is still in the discovery process, and a trial is not expected to be any time.
