The Washington Post reports: The voting technology company Smartmatic and the conservative cable channel Newsmax have reached a settlement, averting a defamation trial that would have begun Monday over allegations that Newsmax personalities and guests spread lies about the 2020 election and Smartmatic’s role in it. Details of the “confidential” settlement were not released. The settlement came on the first …
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Smartmatic Vs Newsmax Trial Set For September 30
CNN reports: A major defamation case against Newsmax will proceed to trial later this month, a judge ruled Thursday, dealing a blow to the right-wing network and setting the stage for the 2020 election to be relitigated during the final stretch of the 2024 race. Delaware Superior Court Judge Eric Davis rejected Newsmax’s attempt to shut down the case, which …
Read More »Billionaire Funds Lawsuits Against Fox And Newsmax
The Washington Post reports: Smartmatic, the voting technology company enmeshed in complex defamation lawsuits against Fox News and Newsmax, has a powerful new financial ally: billionaire tech entrepreneur Reid Hoffman. Hoffman, a co-founder of LinkedIn, has made a multimillion-dollar investment intended in part to help the company sustain its costly litigation. Smartmatic has said the two news outlets smeared it …
Read More »Smartmatic: Newsmax Deleted Evidence In Our Lawsuit
NBC News reports: Smartmatic alleges that Newsmax has destroyed evidence in the voting machine company’s lawsuit against the right-wing news channel over false claims that Smartmatic helped “rig” the 2020 election, according to court documents made public this week. Lawyers for Florida-based Smartmatic allege that Newsmax engaged in a “cover-up” by destroying texts and emails of key executives that would …
Read More »OAN Settles Defamation Suit Brought By Smartmatic
Deadline reports: Smartmatic has reached a settlement with One America News Network over claims that the news outlet amplified false claims that the voting systems company rigged the results of the 2020 election. “Smartmatic has resolved its litigation against OANN through a confidential settlement,” said attorney Eric Connolly, who is representing the voting company in the lawsuit. An attorney for …
Read More »Smartmatic Accuses OAN Of “Criminal Activities”
CNN reports: In the wake of the 2020 election, the president of the far-right network One America News sent a potentially explosive email to former Trump campaign lawyer Sidney Powell, with a spreadsheet claiming to contain passwords of employees from the voting technology company Smartmatic, according to court filings. The existence of the spreadsheet was recently disclosed by Smartmatic, which …
Read More »Fox Loses Attempt To Toss Smartmatic’s $2.7B Lawsuit
NBC News reports: Fox Corp. must face Smartmatic’s $2.7 billion defamation suit, a New York judge ruled on Wednesday, denying a motion to dismiss defamation claims against Fox News’ parent company. Fox lawyers had asked the court to dismiss the claims against Fox Corp., arguing that the parent company — led at the time by executives Rupert and Lachlan Murdoch …
Read More »Rupert Murdoch Deposed In $2.7B Smartmatic Lawsuit
CNBC reports: Rupert Murdoch is being deposed Tuesday as part of the $2.7 billion defamation lawsuit filed against Fox Corp. by the voting technology company Smartmatic. Murdoch is expected to sit for questioning in Los Angeles on Tuesday and Wednesday. It is the second time this year that Murdoch, 92, has been deposed in a high-stakes defamation lawsuit accusing Fox …
Read More »Fox Loses Bid To Subpoena Soros In Smartmatic Case
CNN Business reports: New York judge on Monday shut down an attempt by Fox News to subpoena George Soros, the Jewish billionaire and frequent target of far-right conspiracy theories, and search for additional links between him and Smartmatic, a voting technology company at the center of false election claims during the 2020 election. Manhattan Supreme Court Justice David B. Cohen …
Read More »Judge In Smartmatic Suit Warns Giuliani: Stop Stalling
Courthouse News reports: A New York state judge on Wednesday ordered former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani to stop stalling with excuses and produce electronic evidence to the voting technology company Smartmatic within two weeks. Noting his own experience as a judge in New York City Housing Court for seven years, Judge Cohen ruled Wednesday that Giuliani had not …
Read More »Smartmatic Unloads On Giuliani’s Excuses In New Filing
CNN reports: “‘The dog ate my homework.’ ‘I have to wash my hair.’ ‘I can’t go out, I’m sick.’ Since the dawn of time, people have made up excuses to avoid doing things they do not want to do. This is exactly what Giuliani has done here,” Smartmatic wrote. “For months, Giuliani has made up excuses to get out of …
Read More »Smartmatic Subpoenas Emails Of Newsmax Staffers
Rolling Stone reports: Dominion Voting Systems’ defamation lawsuit against Fox News laid bare how the network communicated behind the scenes about broadcasting 2020 election misinformation, ultimately leading the network to fork over a massive settlement. Newsmax could be next, as voting technology company Smartmatic has subpoenaed several of the right-wing cable network’s current and former employees for work and personal …
Read More »Smartmatic Attorney: We Won’t Settle With Fox News, We’re Going To Trial, Want Apology And Full Retraction
“They are looking to take this case through trial. They are looking for the vindication of a jury verdict in their favor. That was their intention when they filed this lawsuit. That is their intention today. Smartmatic spent over 20 years building a global reputation as being one of the very best election technology companies in the world. “And in …
Read More »Fox Likely To “Pay Their Way Out” Of Smartmatic Suit
Axios reports: Fox News’ $787 million defamation settlement with Dominion Voting Systems ends one lawsuit over the airing of election lies, but there are plenty more to come. In dodging a trial, Fox was able to spare its executives and hosts further embarrassment on the witness stand. But the agreement also set a new benchmark for how much Fox is …
Read More »Smartmatic Subpoenas Fired Fox News Producer
NBC News reports: Abby Grossberg, the former Fox News producer who alleges she was coerced into giving misleading testimony in Dominion Voting Systems’ lawsuit about Fox’s handling of election fraud claims, has been subpoenaed in a separate voting technology company lawsuit against the cable news network. According to a subpoena dated Monday, a copy of which was obtained by NBC …
Read More »Fox News Loses Appeal To Dismiss Smartmatic Lawsuit
ABC News reports: A New York appeals court on Tuesday rejected Fox News’ bid to shut down a multibillion-dollar defamation lawsuit accusing the network of spreading lies that a voting-technology company helped “steal” the 2020 election from then-U.S. President Donald Trump. A five-judge panel ruled unanimously against the network, host Maria Bartiromo and former host Lou Dobbs. They said they …
Read More »Smartmatic Subpoenas Trump Lawyer Christina Bobb
Law & Crime reports: Smartmatic served former President Donald Trump’s lawyer and onetime One America News talking head Christina Bobb with a subpoena for documents that the company seeks over their multi-billion dollar defamation claims against Fox News related to the 2020 presidential election. The broad subpoena seeks any documents and communications that Bobb may have “with or concerning” Smartmatic …
Read More »Giuliani Loses Round In Smartmatic’s Mega Lawsuit
Law & Crime reports: Rudy Giuliani has been dealt another setback on Wednesday in a multi-billion dollar legal battle accusing him of defaming the Smartmatic voting machine company to propagate 2020 election conspiracy theories. On Wednesday, the judge agreed to revive one of the counts that Giuliani had successfully dismissed. That count alleged that Giuliani defamed the company by claiming …
Read More »Court Rejects Lindell’s Bid To Dismiss Smartmatic Suit
Bloomberg News reports: MyPillow Inc. Chief Executive Officer Mike Lindell must face a defamation suit filed by a voting machine maker that was falsely accused of participating in a conspiracy to rig the 2020 election against former President Donald Trump. A federal judge in Minneapolis on Monday denied MyPillow and Lindell’s motion to dismiss the suit by Smartmatic Corp. US …
Read More »Fox Must Turn Over Docs In $2.7B Smartmatic Suit
Law & Crime reports: On the heels of a ruling advancing Smartmatic’s multibillion-dollar lawsuit against Fox News months earlier, a Manhattan judge on Tuesday ordered the conservative network to start turning over files from a pool of millions of documents that the voting machine company demanded. More than a year has passed since Smartmatic filed a $2.7 billion complaint against …
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