Rupert Murdoch might be compelled to take the stand in Dominion Voting Systems’ $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit against Fox News, a judge asserted Wednesday.
for the judge to decide the case in their favor before it goes to a jury trial. The judge did not issue a ruling on the matter, but indicated that he would do so before a pretrial conference that is scheduled for the week of April 10.Erin E. Murphy, who presented Fox’s case in the hearings, restated the network’s contention that Rupert and Lachlan Murdoch were not direct participants in the statements that Dominion has alleged are defamatory — largely on-air comments by Fox’s hosts and guests.
, Murphy, Fox’s lawyer, argued that he was speaking in generalities, not referring to the Dominion allegations specifically. Near the end of the hearing, the judge addressed a legal dispute involving Abby Grossberg, who served as a top producer for Maria Bartiromo’s Sunday show before taking on a new role working for Tucker Carlson.
The judge also laid out his expectations for the length of the trial, down to half-hour chunks. Assuming that the jury will take two days for deliberations, he said that the parties will have 137.5 business hours to make their presentations between the start of the trial on Monday, April 17, and Friday, May 26.
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