A $787.5 million settlement won't be enough to make Smartmatic, the other election systems company suing Fox News for defamation, drop its suit. Dominion Election System's historic settlement with Fox News “set down a marker and it’s a marker that we think we should be exceeding,” Smartmatic lawyer Erik Connolly told CNN Thursday. Connolly called Dominion's agreement “a good start” but “not the right finishing point.” Smartmatic sued Fox News in 2021 for $2.7 billion—more than $1 billion more than what Dominion claimed in damages. Smartmatic already sees Dominion's settlement with Fox News, which was brokered in the final hours before the start of trial, as an advantage in their case. (In Dominion's case, Fox, in its statement, only went so far as to “acknowledge the court’s ruling finding certain claims about Dominion to be false.”)Smartmatic’s case against Fox was always lurking behind the battle with Dominion.

Source: Fox News April 22, 2023 10:00 UTC