The $1.6 billion lawsuit was brought forth by voting machine company Dominion related to false claims about the 2020 presidential election.
Representatives for Dominion and for the two entities it’s suing — Fox News and its parent company, Fox Corp. — did not immediately return requests for comment on the delay. In his statement, Delaware Superior Court Judge Eric Davis said only that the trial, including jury selection, would be continued until Tuesday and that he would announce the delay in court on Monday.
Fox News stars Tucker Carlson and Sean Hannity and founder Rupert Murdoch are among the people who had been expected to testify.“This is Christmas Eve for defamation scholars,” said RonNell Andersen Jones, a University of Utah law professor. Davis said it also is clear that Dominion’s reputation was damaged, but that it would be up to a jury to decide whether Fox acted with “actual malice” — the legal standard — and, if so, what that’s worth financially.
Both Fox and Dominion are incorporated in Delaware, though Fox News is headquartered in New York and Dominion is based in Denver.
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