Fox Legal Chief Cites Judge Errors for $787 Million Settlement

Fox Corp. had to cut a $787.5 million deal with Dominion Voting Systems Inc. after a Delaware judge made a series of errors that effectively forced the media giant’s hand, said its chief legal and policy officer Viet Dinh.

With another US election cycle on the horizon and Fox facing months of agony in the courtroom, good business sense led to a settlement of Dominion’s defamation claims, Dinh said Monday in a discussion at Harvard Law School. While President Joe Biden won the 2020 US presidential election, Fox had a duty to its conservative audience to cover former President Donald ...