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The Guardian reports: Fox News has named the primetime hosts Tucker Carlson and Sean Hannity among witnesses it intends to make available at trial as it defends a $1.6bn defamation suit from Dominion Voting Systems, over the broadcast of Donald Trump’s lie about election fraud in his 2020 defeat by Joe Biden. In a Tuesday letter to the Delaware judge …

The Associated Press reports: A voting machine company’s defamation case against Fox News over its airing of false allegations about the 2020 presidential election will go to trial after a Delaware judge on Friday allowed a jury to decide whether the conservative network aired the claims with actual malice, the standard for proving libel. Superior Court Judge Eric Davis ruled …

Mediaite reports: More Dominion Voting Systems slides used during a recent court hearing in the voting company’s $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit against Fox News were made public on Friday. In an October 2020 email, Fox Corporation Senior Vice President Raj Shah wrote an email with the subject line, “Lengthy Memo re Tucker Carlson Tonight,” in which he suggested “any and …

NBC News reports: Prior to sitting for a deposition, Amy Grossberg met with Fox lawyers that August. She said they repeatedly coached her to refrain from going into detail about higher-ups at the network. “I realized that the answers that they wanted me to say were putting me in a very vulnerable position to be the company scapegoat,” she said. …

The Washington Post reports: Over a tumultuous decade, Rupert Murdoch’s sprawling media empire wrote more than a few big checks to stave off nasty court battles and negative headlines. Which has left many observers puzzled over why Murdoch hasn’t yet settled his highest-stakes legal battle to date: a $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit over bogus claims that an election-technology company rigged …

NBC News reports: Lawyers for Fox News were met with skepticism Tuesday when they argued that Fox Corp. Chairman Rupert Murdoch should be excused from testifying in court as part of Dominion Voting Systems’ $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit against the company. At a hearing in Delaware Superior Court, Judge Eric Davis said he’d received a letter from Fox saying it …

The Hill reports: Fox News’ biggest stars and most powerful leaders could take the witness stand in a Delaware courtroom next month as part of the network’s ongoing legal fight with Dominion Voting Systems, new court documents show. Hosts Tucker Carlson, Sean Hannity and Laura Ingraham as well as Fox News Media CEO Suzanne Scott are among the individuals on …

Reuters reports: A newly fired Fox News producer is seeking to recant testimony she said network lawyers coerced her into providing as Fox defends against Dominion Voting Systems’ $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit. Abby Grossberg said Fox’s lawyers left her feeling she “had to do everything possible to avoid becoming the ‘star witness’ for Dominion or else I would be seriously …

NBC News reports: The former Tucker Carlson producer who sued Fox News last week alleging she was pressured into giving misleading testimony about the network’s coverage of supposed election fraud has filed new allegations about coercive coaching by Fox lawyers, bias and unprofessional behavior by staff members, and retaliation by the network. In papers filed Monday morning, Abby Grossberg seeks …

Variety reports: Fox News cut ties with Abby Grossberg Friday, Variety has learned, after the booker and producer for such hosts as Tucker Carlson and Maria Bartiromo alleged in court filings earlier this week that she was coerced by executives into providing misleading testimony in the $1.6 billion defamation suit that Dominion Voting Systems has levied against the Fox Corp.-backed …

CNN Business reports: A Fox News producer on Monday filed a pair of explosive lawsuits against the right-wing talk channel, alleging that the network’s lawyers coerced her into providing misleading testimony in Dominion Voting Systems’ $1.6 billion defamation case against the company. The lawsuits filed by Abby Grossberg, who worked as a senior booking producer for Maria Bartiromo and most …

The Daily Beast reports: Fox News is now taking legal action against one of its top producers in an effort to silence her amid the ongoing Dominion lawsuit. In a Monday complaint filed in the Supreme Court of New York, Fox News alleged that Abby Grossberg, a senior producer and head of booking for Tucker Carlson, has threatened the network …

Media Matters has the transcript: HOWARD KURTZ (HOST): There’s been practically round-the-clock coverage of the lawsuit against Fox by Dominion Voting Machines. Now that all the legal filings are in and a judge in Delaware will give consideration this month to whether the case goes to trial, it’s time for me to weigh in. I’m not sugarcoating the allegations in …

The Associated Press reports: In defending itself against a massive defamation lawsuit over how it covered false claims surrounding the 2020 presidential election, the network is relying on a nearly 60-year-old Supreme Court ruling that makes it difficult to successfully sue media organizations for libel. Former President Donald Trump and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, two favorites of many Fox News …

CNN’s Oliver Darcy writes in his newsletter: The stunning levels of misconduct exposed in recent weeks raise questions about the future of Suzanne Scott, the embattled chief executive of Fox News. Will she be Murdoch’s sacrificial lamb? The Murdochs “are certainly setting Suzanne Scott up to take the fall for this,” Ben Smith, the Semafor editor-in-chief told me. “They’re leading …

“Some of you have been asking why I’m not covering the Dominion voting machines lawsuit against Fox involving the unproven claims of election fraud in 2020. And it’s absolutely a fair question. I believe I should be covering it. It’s a major media story given my role here at Fox, but the company has decided that as part of the …

Reuters reports: Fox News has told a judge that Dominion Voting Systems has no evidence to support its “staggering” $1.6 billion damages claim in a defamation lawsuit over the network’s coverage of election-rigging conspiracy theories. Fox made the argument in a counterclaim filed in Delaware Superior Court, the latest development in a legal battle over Fox’s coverage of the 2020 …

NPR reports: Fox’s attorneys offer “omitted context” for the seemingly incendiary remarks by such hosts as Sean Hannity, Jeanine Pirro, Lou Dobbs and Maria Bartiromo, as well as their featured guests, including Trump and his former campaign attorneys Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell. That context includes assertions that have long since been debunked and rebutted in dozens of court challenges …

The New York Times reports: “I did not believe it for one second.” That was the answer Mr. Hannity gave, under oath, in a deposition in Dominion’s $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit against Fox News. The hearing was called to address several issues that need to be resolved before the case heads for a jury trial, which the judge has scheduled …

Reuters reports: A U.S. appeals court on Tuesday upheld nearly $187,000 in monetary sanctions against two lawyers who filed and lost an “utterly baseless” lawsuit challenging Democrat Joe Biden’s 2020 presidential win over his Republican rival Donald Trump. The unanimous ruling by a three-judge panel of the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Colorado said Denver attorneys Gary Fielder …