Fox News will share additional documents from the recent case it settled with Dominion Voting Systems to Smartmatic, a second voting systems company that is also suing the network for defamation.
“We will produce the materials as quickly as we are able to,” Winn Allen, a Fox lawyer said during a hearing in New York, CNN reported.
According to The Hill, Smartmatic is suing Fox News for over $2 billion, alleging the network intentionally defamed the company by allowing former President Trump allies Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell to make false claims on the network about the 2020 election.
A trial in the Smartmatic case is likely months away, if not years, however, Fox lost its first bid to toss the company’s suit allowing it to move onto discovery.
“We will be ready to defend this case surrounding extremely newsworthy events when it goes to trial, likely in 2025,” a spokesperson for the network said in its most recent statement about the case.
“As a report prepared by our financial expert shows, Smartmatic’s damages claims are implausible, disconnected from reality, and on its face intended to chill First Amendment freedoms.”
Fox’s willingness to hand over the additional materials comes a week after the network agreed to pay nearly $800 million to Dominion Voting Systems. (RELATED: Fox News Reaches Last-Minute Settlement With Dominion Voting Systems)
The documents are reportedly related to Fox News Corp. (FNC) chairman Rupert Murdoch.
The settlement came just hours before opening arguments in the defamation trial were slated to begin in a Delaware courtroom.
In a statement, Fox News Media said the network was “pleased” to reach a settlement and that it acknowledged “the Court’s rulings finding certain claims about Dominion to be false.”