Defamation claims against Fox Corp. for statements aired on its Fox News Network LLC are likely to survive after a panel of New York judges Tuesday appeared satisfied that the claims are strong enough to go to trial.
Allegations that Fox executives—including Rupert Murdoch and his son Lachlan Murdoch—directed Fox News to air “conspiracy theories” claiming Smartmatic USA Corp. rigged the 2020 US presidential election against Donald Trump seem to “support a straight-up defamation claim,” Associate Justice Saliann Scarpulla of the New York Supreme Court First Appellate Department said during oral arguments.
Scarpulla is one of five appellate judges tasked ...
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