Posted on 04/05/2023 8:40:43 PM PDT by Coronal
WILMINGTON, Del, April 5 (Reuters) - Fox Corp executives Rupert and Lachlan Murdoch can be called to testify at this month’s defamation trial over a $1.6 billion lawsuit claiming the media company lied about voter fraud in the 2020 U.S. presidential election, a judge said on Wednesday.
Rupert Murdoch, the 92-year-old chair of Fox Corp, and his son, Lachlan Murdoch, its CEO, were not on the list of witnesses that Fox intends to make available for the trial, in a case brought by Dominion Voting Systems.
“If Dominion wants to bring them live, they need to do a trial subpoena and I would not quash it and I would compel them to come,” said Delaware Superior Court Judge Eric Davis.
Davis said Fox board member Paul Ryan, a former Republican speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, could also be issued a trial subpoena.
Fox did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Davis said there was an objection by Fox to Rupert Murdoch’s testimony which would probably have to be resolved at trial.
The trial already features a parade of Fox’s biggest on-air personalities, including Tucker Carlson, Sean Hannity and Maria Bartiromo.
The jury trial is scheduled to start on April 17 and expected to last about four weeks.
Dominion is hoping to prove that Fox ruined its reputation by repeatedly airing false claims by former Republican President Donald Trump and others that its voting machines were used to steal the 2020 election for Democrat Joe Biden.
To prevail, Dominion must establish that Fox acted with actual malice, meaning that it knowingly spread false information or acted with reckless disregard for the truth.
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Everything Paul Ryan touches turns to crap.
Lookit you, fapping over the Dominion vote fraudsters.
Aussie trash too. Aussie trash is redundant. Bunch of girly men and feral broads.
Aussie trash too. Aussie trash is redundant. Bunch of girly men and feral broads.
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The Rats are having a field day
If they were smart, FOX would have a massive discovery, but then there would be no evidence left because Dominion destroyed or lost everything.
If this is true that a Number of Dominion voting machines simultaneously shutdown in Nov. 2020, then “Houston, You Have A Problem”!!!
I hope all those phony bastards, including Dominion, rot in hell.
Dominion was always the misdirect. After the election there was an organized campaign by the DS to talk only about Dominion, and we did letting the actual fraud not be uncovered.
watching a 92 year old billionaire being forced in to court
..... a new spectator sport ?????
Could care less if Faux News goes Bankrupt.
Have not watched in years.
“Dominion was always the misdirect. After the election there was an organized campaign by the DS to talk only about Dominion, and we did letting the actual fraud not be uncovered.”
It’s so difficult not to be fooled these days! I freely confess I didn’t even think about that but it makes perfect sense.
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