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A Deeply Fractured US

mariomike said:
I'm no lawyer, but I don't believe companies with strong cases hand over over 3/4 of a billion dollars in a settlement.
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Generally not. This was probably a decision calculated to prevent most of their board from having to testify in court, and leaving Fox’s corporate guts open for the world to peck at.

Smartmatic has a similar lawsuit pending, with bigger damages sought. This bodes well for them and poorly for Fox.
 
brihard said:
Sure is. Not a good look for Fox, paying one of the largest defamation settlements in history.
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Do I even need to add the words?

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dimsum said:
Do I even need to add the words?

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Yes, next up: Smartmatic...


Despite emerging concerns from some Fox critics that it was avoiding true accountability by dodging an apology geared at its viewers, the company’s legal problems are far from over. It faces an even bigger lawsuit in New York from another voting-machine company, Smartmatic, which Fox News broadcasts suggested was linked to Dominion (it wasn’t) and was itself party to voter fraud (also false). The demand from the company in that case: $2.7 billion.

Every indication is that the case is proceeding toward trial. “Dominion’s litigation exposed some of the misconduct and damage caused by Fox’s disinformation campaign,” an attorney for Smartmatic said in a statement on Tuesday. “Smartmatic will expose the rest.”

Smartmatic faces its own hurdle in clearing the high bar for proving defamation cases in the United States. Many legal experts, after reviewing the discovery in the Dominion case, said Dominion seemed to have cleared that hurdle before its trial even began. In that sense, settlement in Wilmington seemed to observers like a harbinger of things to come.

 
daftandbarmy said:
Yes, next up: Smartmatic...


Despite emerging concerns from some Fox critics that it was avoiding true accountability by dodging an apology geared at its viewers, the company’s legal problems are far from over. It faces an even bigger lawsuit in New York from another voting-machine company, Smartmatic, which Fox News broadcasts suggested was linked to Dominion (it wasn’t) and was itself party to voter fraud (also false). The demand from the company in that case: $2.7 billion.

Every indication is that the case is proceeding toward trial. “Dominion’s litigation exposed some of the misconduct and damage caused by Fox’s disinformation campaign,” an attorney for Smartmatic said in a statement on Tuesday. “Smartmatic will expose the rest.”

Smartmatic faces its own hurdle in clearing the high bar for proving defamation cases in the United States. Many legal experts, after reviewing the discovery in the Dominion case, said Dominion seemed to have cleared that hurdle before its trial even began. In that sense, settlement in Wilmington seemed to observers like a harbinger of things to come.

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“Speech is free. Lies cost money”
 
Was it really about vindication, or just money?

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Vindication and Accountability

That’s what one of Dominion’s lawyers said the company had achieved in a statement he made on the courthouse steps in Delaware after the judge announced that the defamation case the company had filed against Fox had been settled for $787.5 million in Dominion’s favor. John Paulos, the Dominion...
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KevinB said:
Was it really about vindication, or just money?

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Vindication and Accountability

That’s what one of Dominion’s lawyers said the company had achieved in a statement he made on the courthouse steps in Delaware after the judge announced that the defamation case the company had filed against Fox had been settled for $787.5 million in Dominion’s favor. John Paulos, the Dominion...
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In civil court they’re the same thing. For a business, reputation hit translates to $$$. They got recompensed that. Any business pursuing civil action is only going to work in their own (largely financial) best interest. A lot of people had hopes and expectations that Dominion would publicly gut Fox and wouldn’t take a settlement, but that was never a reasonable expectation.
 
Fox was always unlikely to risk a civil jury trial in Delaware. They'd be foolish not to tighten up their reporting standards, but they still hold a dominant market position.
 
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