Tag Archives: Dominion

Bloomberg News reports: Fox News’s parent company can be sued by a voting-machine maker because Rupert and Lachlan Murdoch may have acted with “actual malice” in directing the network to broadcast conspiracy theories alleging the 2020 presidential election was rigged against Donald Trump. Delaware Superior Court Judge Eric M. Davis on Tuesday denied Fox Corp.’s motion to dismiss the suit, …

ABC News reports: A federal judge on Friday ruled that a defamation lawsuit filed by Dominion — a voting machine company at the heart of a number of “Big Lie” conspiracy theories — against far-right news outlet Newsmax is allowed to proceed. Judge Eric M. Davis denied Newsmax’s motion to dismiss the $1.6 billion civil suit. In the original complaint …

The Insider reports: MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell has been served with another lawsuit — this time, from Eric Coomer, a former Dominion Voting Systems employee whom Lindell once accused of being a national traitor. Lawyers for Coomer, who worked as Dominion’s director of product strategy and security, filed a court complaint against Lindell on Monday to kick off a defamation …

Law & Crime reports: Mike Lindell, the MyPillow CEO and stalwart Donald Trump supporter who continues to push election conspiracy theories, has lost his appeal after a lower court refused to dismiss an election-related defamation case against him. Dominion Voting Systems sued Lindell for $1.3 billion in February of 2021, accusing Lindell of falsely accusing the company of rigging voting …

The Associated Press reports: A judge Thursday rejected a motion by Fox News to dismiss a $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit brought against the cable news giant by Dominion Voting Systems over claims about the 2020 presidential election. In the 52-page ruling Delaware Superior Court Judge Eric Davis said that the voting machine company had shown that “At this stage, it …

CNN reports: Allies of former President Donald Trump testified under oath that they had done little to verify debunked claims of fraud in the 2020 election before spreading them on the national stage, according to tapes of their depositions obtained exclusively by CNN. The video details responses from the Trump allies as a lawyer representing former Dominion Voting Systems executive …

The Michigan Advance reports: With the help of a pro-Trump attorney, a group of disgruntled former 2020 Michigan poll challengers has launched a lawsuit against voting machine company Dominion for allegedly harming them with cease and desist letters. Kurt Olsen, a Maryland lawyer who aided attempts to illegally overturn the 2020 election for former President Donald Trump, is leading the …

The Daily Beast reports: A key “Stop the Steal” attorney who tried, on Donald Trump’s behalf, to convince former acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen to help execute a coup and overturn the 2020 election is helping a group of Michigan poll challengers sue voting machine company Dominion Voting Systems. And according to newly filed court documents, that Trumpist attorney, Kurt …

Forbes reports: Dominion Voting Systems’ defamation lawsuits against the attorneys Sidney Powell and Rudy Giuliani and MyPillow and its CEO Mike Lindell can move forward, a federal judge ruled Wednesday, dismissing the Trump allies’ motions to have the billion-dollar litigation thrown out over procedural issues and claims that they didn’t defame Dominion with their discredited allegations that the company was …

Vice News reports: On January 27, the pro-Trump channel OAN broadcast a segment interviewing an “expert mathematician” named Ed Solomon who claimed to have found evidence within precinct-level reporting that the election was rigged by an algorithm. The basis of Solomon’s claim is that he found several precincts throughout the country reporting exactly the same results at various times throughout …

The Wall Street Journal reports: One of the largest voting-machine companies in the U.S. on Tuesday sued two conservative media networks and a businessman it said had defamed it by spreading accusations that it rigged the 2020 election for President Biden. Dominion Voting Systems filed suits against Newsmax Media Inc. and Herring Networks Inc.’s One America News Network. Dominion also …

The Insider reports: Fox News aired a legal disclaimer over former President Donald Trump’s speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference Sunday night. The message appeared on the chyron after Trump continued to push the lie that the 2020 presidential election had been stolen from him. Trump said the election had been “rigged” against him and there’s “so much evidence” …

Bloomberg News reports: Rudy Giuliani, already being sued for defamation by Dominion Voting Systems Inc. over his debunked election-conspiracy claims, has been issued a subpoena in a similar lawsuit the company filed against Fox News Network. The former New York mayor and Donald Trump’s personal lawyer was asked to hand over all documents stemming from his appearances on Fox starting …

“I want everyone to know about cancel culture. The law firm that we hired here in Minneapolis. They were hired — you have to get a local firm — that was hired, so we hired them. Well they were attacked by bots and trolls and emails and everything, after this was filed last Thursday. “On Friday morning they fired the …

Bloomberg News reports: Dominion Voting Systems Inc. said dismissal of its defamation suit against Fox News Networks would give media companies a “blank check” to knowingly broadcast lies to hundreds of millions of people as long as they deem the falsehoods to be newsworthy. Tossing the case, as Fox has requested, would upend the U.S. Supreme Court’s decades-old balance of …

The Insider reports: MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell on Thursday filed another federal lawsuit against two voting-machine companies involved in the 2020 presidential election. MyPillow had already filed a lawsuit in April against Dominion Voting Systems for $1.6 billion, claiming the company was trying to stifle free speech. Dominion sued Lindell in February for $1.3 billion over claims he was making …

The Insider reports: Attorneys for Dominion Voting Systems have asked a judge to reject MyPillow’s request to dismiss a $1.3 billion defamation lawsuit over election conspiracy theories, arguing that the pillow company should be held responsible for spreading the false belief that Dominion rigged the 2020 election. In a motion on Friday, Dominion argued that MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell’s falsehood-filled …

CBS News reports: Fox News Media on Tuesday asked a court in Delaware to dismiss a $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit filed against it by Dominion Voting Systems over false claims about the 2020 presidential election amplified by some of its on-air personalities and guests. In a 61-page filing in the Delaware Supreme Court, lawyers for the media company argued Dominion’s …

As you can see below, the segment was supposed to be about Elon Musk’s hosting gig on Saturday Night Live. Here’s the transcript: ROB FINNERTY: “What’d you think of Elon Musk’s performance? This is the first time since 2015 we’ve had a non-athlete, non-entertainer on the show. The last person to do that, and do well with great ratings: our …

Law & Crime reports: Newsmax reached a confidential settlement with and apologized to a Dominion employee who sued the outlet for defamation in December for amplifying a pro-Trump conspiracy theory scapegoating him for the 45th president’s defeat. Dr. Eric Coomer, the director of product strategy and security for Dominion, filed the lawsuit against more than a dozen entities and people …