Fox News is in a 'world of hurt' and facing a 'gargantuan verdict' in billion dollar lawsuit - RawSt

[GGoss]

Fox News is in a 'world of hurt' and facing a 'gargantuan verdict' in billion dollar lawsuit - RawStory

Reacting to reports that Fox News hosts were spreading 2020 election fraud conspiracies on-air while privately texting each other that there was no truth to them, a former high-ranking Department of Justice official claimed the conservative network can expect to lose big in the lawsuit filed against it by Dominion Voting Systems.

Speaking with MSNBC host Alex Witt, legal analyst Harry Litman stated the network won't have a leg to stand on as they attempt to fend off the billion-dollar lawsuit.

In short, he told the MSNBC host, Fox News is "in a world of hurt."

"When it comes to the burden in this case, it falls on Dominion to prove that Fox acted with actual malice when it claimed that Dominion's voting machines were designed to rig elections," host Witt prompted. "That burden is typically very difficult to meet, but how far does this filing go towards meeting it?"

"Pretty far," Litman explained. "So actual malice is law-speak for they knew that they were purveying lies, or at least they were in reckless disregard of it. As you suggest, very rare to win that kind of lawsuit since the Supreme Court put that standard in place."

Link: https://www.rawstory.com/fox-news-dominion-2659437420/

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[Takket]

1. the burdon of proof here is SO high.

this is one of those "i'll believe it when i see it" things. and even if guilty i fear Fox will just get a slap on the wrist of a few million dollars.

Rooting for Dominion

[dsc]

3. It will be either zero dollars

or a boatload of dollars. They have proven damages, literally no place will buy their machines at this point. The difficult part of their case, and it seems to be way less difficult now, is the malice standard. If this isn't malice I haven't a clue what is. But you never know what a jury will do.

[Volaris]

6. That's why they asked for summary judgement

And it's just me, but of Alex Jones was worth 1.5 billion, fox has got to be worth ten times that based on the amount of people their lies effected...

[republianmushroom]

2. like it

[keithbvadu2]

4. If this goes badly for Fox, it will surely go to the Supreme Court.

If this goes badly for Fox, it will surely go to the Supreme Court.

[Bev54]

5. And let's not forget there is another suit right behind them from Smartmatic and I think

it is for even more money. If they lose this suit, I am sure they will settle with Smartmatic. But to be sure it will not put them out of business, they have enough cash to pay. I would love to see some personal lawsuits to shut down their prime time anchors.