The Fox-Dominion Settlement: A Turning Point for Defamation Laws in Media
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Fox News and Dominion Voting Systems reached a $787.5 million settlement in a defamation lawsuit, believed to be the largest in such a case. The settlement came together quickly as the threat of the trial and the likelihood of more damaging revelations convinced Fox to settle. The mediator, Jerry Roscoe, overcame the impasse with a breakthrough series of deal points that the two sides could at least work from, giving the talks a new intensity. The compromise: an acknowledgment from Fox that it understood Judge Davis’s pretrial rulings against the network.
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