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83 Lachlan Murdoch, co-chairman and main enforcement serviceman of Fox Corp., attends the yearly Allen and Co. Sun Valley media league successful Sun Valley, Idaho, July 11, 2019.
Brendan McDermid | Reuters
Fox Corp. CEO Lachlan Murdoch is slated to look for a deposition connected Monday arsenic the Dominion Voting Systems defamation suit against the institution and its cablegram networks moves forward.
Dominion's suit against Fox, which is seeking $1.6 cardinal successful damages, has argued Fox News and Fox Business made mendacious claims its voting machines rigged the results of the 2020 predetermination betwixt Donald Trump and Joe Biden.
Fox personalities including Maria Bartiromo, Sean Hannity, Tucker Carlson and Jeanine Pirro were deposed earlier this year.
Murdoch volition beryllium the highest ranking enforcement to beryllium questioned truthful far. A Fox Corp. spokesperson declined to remark connected Thursday.
In June, a Delaware justice overseeing the lawsuit had reportedly ruled that Dominion's suit could beryllium expanded beyond the cablegram TV networks to see their genitor company, meaning Fox Corp.'s seat and Lachlan's father, Rupert Murdoch, could besides beryllium deposed. Dominion has argued the genitor institution and its apical brass played a relation successful Fox's hosts successful spreading misinformation astir elector fraud.
Requests to disregard the lawsuit person been denied. Neither broadside has shown signs of entering colony talks, though that could alteration earlier the trial's expected commencement successful April, CNBC antecedently reported. Fox has vigorously denied the claims.
The depositions are private, arsenic are the documents that Dominion has been collecting done the find process. Fox has antecedently asked the tribunal to support each collected materials private, claiming Dominion mischaracterized what the documents amusement arsenic existent malice.
First Amendment experts and advocates person been intimately watching the case, successful portion due to the fact that of Dominion's lengthy database of examples that Fox web hosts repeatedly made mendacious claims, adjacent aft facts came to light. Such cases are often settled retired of tribunal oregon dismissed.
