smartmatic lawyer erik connolly told cnn thursday. connolly called dominion's agreement “a good start” but “not the right finishing point.” smartmatic sued fox news in 2021 for $2.7 billion—more than $1 billion more than what dominion claimed in damages. smartmatic already sees dominion's...
Fox News, Smartmatic Handed Wins in Dueling Claims Over Election Falsehoods The court's order advanced claims from both sides. The dispute centers on allegations that Fox, in an attempt to boost ratings, capitalized on the popularity of former President Donald Trump by fabricating a narrative that...
In this edition, host Jonathan Amarilio and co-host Trisha Rich are joined by J. Erik Connolly to discuss the $2.7 billion defamation lawsuit he recently brought against Fox News, Rudy Giuliani, Sydney Powell and others, on behalf of his client, Smartmatic, an election technology company. The...
Smartmatic, which makes voting machines, made similar claims in a defamation lawsuit that alleged Lou Dobbs and two other Fox News hosts falsely accused the company of helping to rig the election against Trump. The day after Smartmatic sued on Feb. 4, Fox canceled...
Dobbs will still remain under contract at Fox News but is not expected to appear on any of its networks again,according to the Los Angeles Times. The show cancellation comes a day after Fox News and its hosts Maria Bartiromo, Jeanine Pirro and Dobbs weresued by Smartmatic, a voting technolo...
Fox faces more legal peril from a similar defamation claim filed by the voting company Smartmatic, which was briefly conflated with Dominion during the lies spread by Trump’s allies after the 2020 election. Additional lawsuits target other players in the conservative media world: The Georg...
Fox is also being sued by electronic voting firm Smartmatic USA Corp., which filed its own lawsuit over the fraud claims in February 2021. Erik Hayden contributed to this report. Read More About: Fox News Rupert Murdoch THR Newsletters Sign up for THR news straight to your inbox every ...
Dominion has also sued Giuliani, Powell and the CEO of Minnesota-based MyPillow over the claims. A rival technology company, Smartmatic USA, also sued Fox News over election claims for a similar sum of money. Unlike Dominion, Smartmatic’s participation in the 2020 election was restricted...
The company was hit with a shareholder lawsuit — filed under seal — two days later that, perBloomberg Law, could blame Fox's leadership for putting the corporation in legal peril. A lawyer for international voting tech company Smartmatic, which sued Fox in 2021 for $2.7 billion for defama...
Fox being sued over its airing of stories that claimed the election was rigged FILE - Tucker Carlson, host of “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” poses for photos in a Fox News Channel studio on March 2, 2017, in New York. Dominion Voting Systems’ defamation lawsuit against Fox News for airing...