Manhattan Supreme Court Justice David Cohen revived a count against Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani in Smartmatic’s defamation lawsuit against Giuliani and associates including Fox News. The count alleged that Giuliani defamed Smartmatic with the claim that the company’s “election technology was designed and used to fix, rig and steal elections.” (Law & Crime, November 9, 2022, by Adam Klasfeld)
In a related lawsuit, a judge ruled that Dominion Voting System’s defamation lawsuit against One America News Network can progress, one of several cases over false election fraud claims about voting machines. (Forbes, November 8, 2022, by Alison Durkee)