“I am very concerned… that there have been misrepresentations to the court,” Superior Judge Eric Davis said at a pre-trial hearing on Wednesday.
against the right-wing network said he plans to appoint a special master to probe whether Fox lied about withholding evidence.
Chastising the network’s lawyers, Davis added that he was “very uncomfortable right now” about the appearance that Fox didn’t fulfill all of its discovery obligations as it approached trial.
In her complaint, Grossberg alleged that Fox failed to disclose several potentially explosive audio recordings to Dominion during the discovery process. Lawyers for Dominion also played these recordings in the courtroom on Wednesday, prompting Davis to admonish the network’s attorneys for failing to hand them over to the voting software firm during discovery.
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