"Dominion can't bring up January 6 at Fox News defamation trial, judge rules"

[GPV]

Wilmington, Delaware
CNN
—
Dominion Voting Systems can’t bring up the January 6 insurrection during its upcoming defamation trial against Fox News, a Delaware judge ruled Tuesday, who also revealed at a hearing that he has been receiving death threats.

The voting technology company sued Fox News over the right-wing network’s promotions of false claims that Dominion voting machines rigged the 2020 election. But almost all of the allegedly defamatory statements mentioned in Dominion’s lawsuit occurred before the January 6, 2021, storming of the US Capitol.

Delaware Superior Court Judge Eric Davis said at a hearing Tuesday that invoking January 6 would be too prejudicial with the jury, and that the case isn’t about whether Fox News “influenced” the insurrection.

“That may be for another court at another time, but it’s not for this court at this time,” Davis said.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/11/media/fox-news-dominion-january-6th-references/index.html

[Bev54]

1. At least he acknowledged it was for another court and another time.

[GPV]

2. Yes

[Bleacher Creature]

3. Good thing there is literally hundreds of hours of damaging broadcasts on other days.

The evidence is pretty incontrovertible.

[genxlib]

4. I think that is bullshit

Because part of the damage to their reputation is because the slander they endured directly led to the clusterfuck that was Jan 6.

That escalated how damaging the slander was so how could it possibly be irrelevant.

This is what happens when people get away with threatening public figures. it makes them timid and unwilling to "go there"

[Sneederbunk]

5. Plaintiff should have Michael Fanone and Eugene Goodman sitting in courtroom.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

6. I was hoping that the judge would rule in favor of this event

[Samrob]

7. Can they bring up Jan 5th? A lot was going on in the 5th, nt