• Dominion May Collect $1,000,000,000 From Fox News

    From bruce bowser@21:1/5 to Bradley K. Sherman on Sat Feb 18 08:52:02 2023
    On Sunday, December 4, 2022 at 9:15:12 AM UTC-5, Bradley K. Sherman wrote in alt.politics:
    |
    | Lachlan Murdoch, the chief executive of the Fox
    | Corporation, is expected to be deposed on Monday as part of
    | a $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit against Fox News for
    | amplifying bogus claims that rigged machines from Dominion
    | Voting Systems were responsible for Donald J. Trump's
    | defeat in 2020.
    | ...
    | "This is a very different kind of case," said David A.
    | Logan, dean of the Roger Williams School of Law, who has
    | argued in favor of loosening some libel laws. "Rarely do
    | cases turn on a weekslong pattern of inflammatory, provably
    | false, but also oddly inconsistent statements."
    | ... <https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/04/business/media/fox-dominion-lawsuit.html>

    --bks

    A $billion point six bucks. That's serious.

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  • From m syadoz@21:1/5 to bruce bowser on Fri Mar 3 15:43:20 2023
    On Saturday, February 18, 2023 at 10:52:04 AM UTC-6, bruce bowser wrote:
    On Sunday, December 4, 2022 at 9:15:12 AM UTC-5, Bradley K. Sherman wrote in alt.politics:
    |
    | Lachlan Murdoch, the chief executive of the Fox
    | Corporation, is expected to be deposed on Monday as part of
    | a $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit against Fox News for
    | amplifying bogus claims that rigged machines from Dominion
    | Voting Systems were responsible for Donald J. Trump's
    | defeat in 2020.
    | ...
    | "This is a very different kind of case," said David A.
    | Logan, dean of the Roger Williams School of Law, who has
    | argued in favor of loosening some libel laws. "Rarely do
    | cases turn on a weekslong pattern of inflammatory, provably
    | false, but also oddly inconsistent statements."
    | ... <https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/04/business/media/fox-dominion-lawsuit.html>

    --bks

    A $billion point six bucks. That's serious.


    Add a few more bucks

    Rupert Murdoch could face FEC fines if he tipped off Jared Kushner about Biden's presidential ads before they aired

    https://www.businessinsider.com/rupert-murdoch-possible-fines-fec-jared-kushner-leak-biden-ads-2023-3

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