NPR and New York Times ask judge to unseal documents in Fox defamation case

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Lawyers for NPR News and The New York Times have jointly filed a legal brief asking a judge to unseal hundreds of pages of documents from a $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit filed by an elections technology company against Fox News.

"This lawsuit is unquestionably a consequential defamation case that tests the scope of the First Amendment," the challenge brought by the news organizations reads. "It has been the subject of widespread public interest and media coverage and undeniably involves a matter of profound public interest: namely, how a broadcast network fact-checked and presented to the public the allegations that the 2020 Presidential election was stolen and that plaintiff was to blame."

Dominion Voting Systems has sued Fox and its parent company over claims made by Fox hosts and guests after the November 2020 presidential elections that the company had helped fraudulently throw the election to Joe Biden. Those claims were debunked - often in real time, and sometimes by Fox's own journalists. Dominion alleges that much potential business has been disrupted and that its staffers have faced death threats.