A last second agreement has been reached in the historical demand for the defamation of Dominion’s voting systems against Fox News, the parties announced on Tuesday in court.
The agreement was apparently negotiated while the trial was on the verge of opening statements in Wilmington, Delaware.
After swearing in the jury on Tuesday, an inexplicable one -hour delay stopped the procedure in the Court, which again caused unbridled speculations that an agreement was silent in process.
What this means: The last minute agreement means that the watched case is effective and won the process for the trial. When establishing with Dominion, the influential executives of Fox News and the prominent personalities in the air will be saved from testifying on their electoral coverage of 2020, which was filled with lies about electoral fraud.
The details of the agreement were not available immediately and never made public.
More about the case: In his demand, Dominion sought $ 1.6 billion in Fox News damage. The right -wing network vociferantly argued in pretial processes that the number was inflated and did not come to accurately capture the potential losses that Dominion could be resulted as a result or Fox 2020 transmissions.
Fox News and Fox Corporation, his parent company, which was also a defendant, say they never defamed Dominion, and say that the case is an assault without merit to press freedoms. They denied Dominion’s statement that they promoted conspiracies of thesis elections to save their fall qualifications after the 2020 elections.
While Dominion’s case is over, Fox News still faces a second demand for significant smartmatic defamation, another voting technology company that was stained in Fox shows after the 2020 elections. That case is still in the discovery process, and a short -term test is not expected.
