Judge sanctions Fox News, says it has a ‘credibility problem’ – By Jordan Rubin (MSNBC) / Apr 12 2023
Issues keep mounting for the network ahead of Dominion Voting Systems’ $1.6 billion defamation trial related to 2020 election lies.
Things were already looking rough for Fox News before this week, ahead of its defamation trial set to begin Monday. The Delaware judge overseeing the case, Eric Davis, previously narrowed the legal issues that Dominion Voting Systems has to prove in its suit over the network’s promotion of 2020 election lies.
Then on Wednesday, Davis said he’s sanctioning Fox for withholding evidence and, according to NBC News, “considering appointing a special master to investigate the Fox legal teams’ actions.”
According to NBC News:
“According to a person present in the courtroom, lawyers for Dominion Voting Systems played recordings Fox News producer Abby Grossberg made during 2020, which were not handed over to Dominion’s lawyers during discovery.
Grossberg, a former producer for Fox hosts Maria Bartiromo and Tucker Carlson, has sued Fox News and said her deposition was coerced. In an amended filing Tuesday, she said she had recorded conversations with Rudy Giuliani, Sidney Powell and others.
The sanction gives Dominion a chance to conduct another deposition, at Fox’s expense.”
