| One of the most closely watched US defamation cases in decades is set to begin on Thursday as a Delaware court picks a jury to decide whether Fox News should payA critical task for jurors over the five-week trial will be deciding who was responsible for the cable network’s decision to broadcast the claims despite internal doubts about their veracity. Dominion asserts that Fox’s top brass approved of the coverage, but the network says the evidence of high-level involvement is threadbare.
“The more complicit the whole organisation is in perpetuating these known falsehoods, the more likely a jury would be to return a big dollar figure,” said Mary-Rose Papandrea, a constitutional law professor at the UNC School of Law. The jury pool will be drawn from New Castle County, Delaware, where Democrats outnumber Republicans more than two-to-one, according to the state’s Department of Elections. Fox is home to many conservative commentators who pulled for Mr Trump.
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