12-16-2021
Court can ‘infer’ Fox News ‘intended to avoid the truth’:
Judge lets $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit to go forward.
Dominion Voting Systems’ $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit against Fox News can move forward, a Delaware state judge ruled Thursday.
Law & Crime reports Delaware Superior Court Judge
Eric M. Davis wrote;
“For purposes of the Motion, the Court must view
all well-pled facts alleged in the Complaint as true
and in a light most favorable to Dominion.
If the plaintiff offers ‘some direct evidence’ that
the statement ‘was probably false,’ the Court
can infer that the defendant ‘inten[ded] to avoid
the truth.’”
The far right wing cable network is being sued for giving “fictions a prominence they otherwise would never have achieved,” Dominion said in its lawsuit back in March, turning “a small flame…into a forest fire.”
“With Fox’s global platform,” Dominion’s 138-page lawsuit contents, “an audience of hundreds of millions, and the inevitable and extensive republication and dissemination of the falsehoods through social media, these lies deeply damaged Dominion’s
once-thriving business.”
In a statement Fox News called the lawsuit an
“all-out assault on the First Amendment.”
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