Fox Corporation argued that it should be dismissed from Smartmatic’s $2.7 billion lawsuit against Fox News, contending that a lower court judge erred in his assessment of the influence that Rupert and Lachlan Murdoch and other executives had over the editorial decisions of the news network.
In January, New York Judge David Cohen refused to dismiss Smartmatic’s claims against Fox News parent Fox Corporation, concluding that the voting systems company had “sufficiently alleged” that Rupert Murdoch and Lachlan Murdoch played “an affirmative role” in the broadcast of false claims of election rigging. The ruling was not a decision on whether the Smartmatic claims are true, just that the company had cleared the threshold in its lawsuit with enough factual allegations to be a triable issue.
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.
In January, New York Judge David Cohen refused to dismiss Smartmatic’s claims against Fox News parent Fox Corporation, concluding that the voting systems company had “sufficiently alleged” that Rupert Murdoch and Lachlan Murdoch played “an affirmative role” in the broadcast of false claims of election rigging. The ruling was not a decision on whether the Smartmatic claims are true, just that the company had cleared the threshold in its lawsuit with enough factual allegations to be a triable issue.
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.
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The great “Saturday Night Live” performers have always been more than funny. They’re up there to make you laugh, of course, but it’s the way they make you laugh — the manic expressive rock-star shine of their personality, and how it channels their comedic spirit. (That’s something you hold onto long after the laugh is over.) And no one on “Saturday Night Live” ever had a spirit that burned more brightly, or hilariously, than Gilda Radner.
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