Dan Webb Discusses Defamation Lawsuit Against Fox News in The New York Times

Winston & Strawn Co-Executive Chairman Dan Webb discussed his representation of Fox News in connection with Dominion Voting System’s ongoing defamation lawsuit against the network in The New York Times.

Since the lawsuit was filed in March 2021, Fox News has stated that they are protected under the First Amendment and cannot be held liable for reporting news of Donald Trump’s voter fraud allegations. 

“This does not appear to be a case that’s going to settle — but anything can happen,” said Dan. “There are some very fundamental First Amendment issues here, and those haven’t changed.”

He noted that while he intended to show that the fraud allegations were not entirely false, he would not pretend that the allegations of voter fraud in the 2020 election were true. “The president’s allegations were not correct,” he said, adding that he planned “to show the jury that those security concerns were there and were real and added plausibility to the president’s allegations.”

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