Fox Corp. CEO Lachlan Murdoch is dropping his defamation claim against Australian news site Crikey over a column that connected him to the January 6th attack on the Capitol. In a statement, Murdoch…
was poised to introduce material gathered during the discovery process in the Dominion suit, in which Fox agreed to pay $787.5 million to settle the claim and avoid a trial.Dan Bongino Exits Fox News, Says He And Network Couldn't Come To Terms On Extending Contract
“It’s a matter of public record that Crikey admits that there is no truth to the imputations that were made about Mr. Murdoch in the article,” Churchill said. “In their latest attempt to change their defense strategy, Crikey has tried to introduce thousands of pages of documents from aThe defamation claim was over a June 29, 2022 analysis piece that identified the Murdochs as “unindicted co-conspirators” in the January 6th attacks on the Capitol.
The judge in the Dominion lawsuit, Eric Davis, told attorneys last week that he would not allow the January 6th attacks to be introduced in a trial, finding it unfairly prejudicial to Fox’s side. Churchill said in his statement that Dominion also did not argue that Murdoch bore responsibility for January 6th. Churchill said that Murdoch “remains confident that the court would ultimately find in his favour, however he does not wish to further enable Crikey’s use of the court to litigate a case from another jurisdiction that has already been settled and facilitate a marketing campaign designed to attract subscribers and boost their profits.
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