A federal judge on Monday ordered Mike Lindell to pay more than $50,000 in sanctions to Smartmatic over "frivolous" claims made against the company.

Mike Lindell dinged nearly $60K in sanctions for ‘frivolous’ lawsuit claims against Smartmatic - Lastest hit comes after an $800,000 judgement over an upaid DHL bill

Fox Corp lost its bid Thursday to not be included in the $2.7 billion defamation suit brought against Fox News by Smartmatic, an electronic voting systems company. A New York state appeals court rejected Fox’s motion on Thursday in a five-judge panel decision.

The complaint, which arose out of Fox News’s promotion of vote-rigging conspiracy theories after the 2020 U.S. presidential election, is on track to proceed to trial.

A judge has ordered MyPillow CEO and Trump-supporter Mike Lindell to pay more than $56,000 in sanctions to voting machine company Smartmatic. Lindell filed a racketeering lawsuit against the company in 2022 that was tossed last year. Smartmatic moved for sanctions to cover legal fees for what it called a "frivolous lawsuit."

The latest ruling represents a key victory for Smartmatic’s efforts to go after the right-wing media outlet over its promotion of debunked claims that the election was stolen from former President

In 2023, Fox settled a similar lawsuit filed by another election systems company, Dominion Voting Systems, for $787.5 million. Before the settlement, Fox had sought to exclude Rupert Murdoch from testifying in person at a trial, but the Delaware judge rejected that request.

Fox Corp, the parent of Fox News Network, failed to convince a New York state appeals court to dismiss a defamation claim in electronic voting systems company Smartmatic's $2.7 billion lawsuit over the network's 2020 post-election coverage.

Donald Trump’s sentencing in his New York hush-money trial will proceed on Friday, after the Supreme Court declined the president-elect’s emergency appeal to halt the proceedings. In an order posted this evening,

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