The voting technology company will also be able to obtain communications from Fox Corp. board members
Voting technology company Smartmatic subpoenaed four Fox Corporation board members on Monday as part of its $2.7 billion defamation lawsuit against Fox News over its coverage of the 2020 election.
The decision represented a victory for Smartmatic, which has argued that the four board members are relevant to the case the company is trying to make: that executives at Fox knew that claims of election fraud made by Donald Trump allies were false but did nothing to stop the network’s coverage, out of a desire to protect the company’s business fortunes.close proximity to the Murdochs.
Smartmatic sued Fox in February 2021, arguing that comments made by Fox personalities and guests — including Trump-affiliated attorneys Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell — destroyed the company’s reputation as an election technology provider. The next step in the case will occur sometime this fall, when both Smartmatic and Fox will submit motions requesting that the judge decide the case in their favor ahead of a trial that is tentatively slated for 2025.
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