The MeidasTouch Podcast - Dominion deposes Rupert Murdoch and seeks devastating sanctions against Fox

MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on the updates in the Dominion lawsuit against Fox, where Dominion sought spoliation sanctions last week and will be deposing Rupert Murdoch this week on Tuesday and Wednesday.Shop Meidas Merch at: https://store.meidastouch.comJoin us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/meidastouchRemember to subscribe to ALL the Meidas Media Podcasts:MeidasTouch: https://pod.link/1510240831Legal AF: https://pod.link/1580828595The PoliticsGirl Podcast: https://pod.link/1595408601The Influence Continuum: https://pod.link/1603773245Kremlin File: https://pod.link/1575837599Mea Culpa with Michael Cohen: https://pod.link/1530639447The Weekend Show: https://pod.link/1612691018The Tony Michaels Podcast: https://pod.link/1561049560American Psyop: https://pod.link/1652143101

Duration: 14m
Broadcast on: 12 Dec 2022
Audio Format: other

I'm Ben Mycelis from the Midas Touch Network, things are heating up in Dominion's $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit brought against Fox in Delaware Superior Court before the presiding judge there, Judge Eric Davis, last week, Dominion filed a motion for sanctions against Fox for spoliation, which means the intentional destruction of emails. And according to the motion filed by Dominion, Fox intentionally deleted emails that belong to Sean Hannity, Laura Ingraham, and the CEO of Fox, Suzanne Scott, to just name a few of the witnesses who it is now alleged by Dominion had their emails purged intentionally to try to hide what they were actually saying in real time during 2020 election results and thereafter to avoid a jury having to hear the damaging information. And additionally, this week on Tuesday and Wednesday, Rupert Murdoch, who still carries the title of chairman of all of Fox. I hate to call it Fox News, but that's the legal name of it. But Rupert Murdoch is going to be deposed on Tuesday and Wednesday, which marks the first time that Rupert Murdoch is going to have to speak under oath in a very high profile setting. And the last time that occurred is in 2011, when Rupert Murdoch went before the British Parliament with a major scandal there where Fox and a daily tabloid there called News of the World, which was run and owned by Rupert Murdoch, which is a Sunday tabloid was involved in hacking into celebrities and high profile people's phones to get their voice messages and emails. So let's take these two issues and break them down. First, let's talk about the spoliation motion that Dominion filed last week on Wednesday. Spoliation is a legal term and spoliation means the intentional destruction of documents in anticipation of litigation. And so when a party reasonably anticipates litigation, they have an obligation to preserve all records that preservation obligation just exists generally in the law. But I'm also sure here that Dominion sent a preservation letter as well to Fox and to all of its executives demanding that they preserve all emails, all documents, all electronically stored information, as we call it, ESI in the legal field. So I have no doubt that that was something that Dominion did there and what Dominion is alleging is that critical emails, crucial emails, crucial messages have been destroyed. Now, how would Dominion know that? Well, in cases like this, the party's higher, third party, electronic discovery vendors, the parties will make interrogatory requests and document requests and sometimes use search terms. And then what you do is you have a deposition where you talk to an individual witness. So let's say there was document requests that were sent to Sean Hannity. And Sean Hannity gets deposed by Dominion, which he has already as has Laura Ingraham, as has Janine Piero, as has the CEO, Susan Scott, as has Lachlan and everybody, basically, other than Rupert Murdoch has been deposed to date. So they're climbing the ladder now. And so when you take the deposition, you say, what steps did you take to preserve it? Did you hear that there was a preservation obligation? Did you delete any of the documents? And you go through those questions under penalty of perjury to determine what steps that the witness, the opponent, took to preserve their records. And then if they give unsatisfactory answers, you then dig deeper. You can propound interrogatory questions under oath to then try to discover what preservation obligations were undertaken by the defendant. And one of the ways you can also know too is if you're sending out third party subpoenas

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