When the opening bell rings this week for the $1.6 billion Dominion v. Fox News First Amendment heavyweight fight about to go down in Delaware, one combatant will already be bruised and bloodied.
Fox News has been vigorous, detailed and consistent in parrying defamation claims brought by Dominion Voting Systems over coverage of the 2020 presidential election — it just hasn’t been effective.
Dominion has landed a flurry of blows in discovery and pre-trial filings, from embarrassing revelations about behind-the-scenes discord at the network’s promotion of zany election conspiracy theorists down to the sloppy “discovery misconduct” of Fox’s lawyers on the eve of trial.