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Fox Corporation Tells Appeals Court It Shouldn’t Be Part Of Smartmatic’s Defamation Claim
The parent company of Fox News is seeking dismissal from Smartmatic's defamation lawsuit.
But in an appeal brief to New York’s appellate division this week, Fox Corporation’s attorneys wrote that Cohen “concluded that Smartmatic adequately alleged vicarious liability because ‘Corp. Smartmatic filed a $2.7 billion lawsuit against Fox and some of its personalities in early 2021, alleging that they amplified false claims that the company was involved in rigging the results of the 2020 election. In January, Cohen also refused to toss out Fox’s counterclaim against Smartmatic, which alleges that the damages that the voting systems company is “pure fiction,” and so great as to chill the network’s First Amendment rights.
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