Why Dominion is already the winner of the $1.6bn lawsuit against Fox News
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Source: The Guardian
As Fox News continued to broadcast lies about Dominion voting systems and the 2020 election, Tucker Carlson, one of its star hosts used one word over and over to describe what the network was doing – “reckless”.
Those messages were the first pieces of evidence Justin Nelson, a lawyer representing Dominion, displayed on Tuesday as he began his argument for why a judge should rule the network defamed his client. “Reckless was a meaningful word” – in order to win the case, Nelson has to prove that Fox acted with “actual malice” – that its hosts, producers and executives knew the statements were false or acted with reckless disregard to the truth.
“Unlike every other single defamation case, we have in their own words the fact that they knew it was false,” Nelson said.
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/mar/23/dominion-fox-news-defamation-lawsuit-winner?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
My favorite part of this is...
Legal Scholars can't even use this case to teach anything in school because it's too perfect. There is no real question to debate.
Defamation cases normally require lawyers to infer from tea leaves whether they can convince a jury that statements were false or in reckless disregard of the truth, and (in this case) that it involved actual malice.
There's none of that here because Fox's own records straight up admit it.
The best Fox can do is throw individuals under the bus in an attempt to separate Fox from those records.
Hence now (Abby Grossberg) is suing Fox for coercion as they attempt to use her as a scapegoat.
Place your bets now y'all!! Time to cash in...
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