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The $787.5-million settlement that ended Dominion Voting Systems' defamation lawsuit against Fox Corp also marks the end of a lucrative, two-year legal battle for the sprawling teams of highly-paid lawyers on both sides. At least 31 lawyers from nine different law firms worked on the case, court filings show.

Fox News and Dominion Voting Systems pulled back from the brink of a contentious libel trial with a little assist from overseas.

The eleventh hour deal came just ahead of opening statements in the highly anticipated trial and before Tucker Carlson, Sean Hannity, and the Murdochs could take the stand.

On, the record, a rather fulsome and complete set o facts, not just everything t proceed with the trial, bu laying out for the public an nation the degree to which there is cynicism and fear o losing an audience that wa driving foxes decisions. not some sort of journalisti imperative that had to b mistaken dominion accomplished both o its aims, in a sense they wanted vindication, and they wanted there to be public record of what went awry, looking under the rock and seeing how fox acted in this ...

The Fox News trial had it all: Drama! Consequences! A weird Michael Wolff spat! And a sinking feeling about what it all meant.

The voting-machine company has agreed to a seven-hundred-million-dollar settlement in its defamation suit against Rupert Murdoch’s cable news network.

Settlement averts potentially embarrassing trial forcing Murdoch to testify about oversight of network

By Marshall Cohen and Oliver Darcy, CNN

Wilmington, Delaware (CNN) Veteran mediator Jerry Roscoe was on a river cruise from Budapest to Bucharest, celebrating his 70th birthday on Sunday, when

Stephen Shackelford had a grin nearly the size of Texas when he walked out of a Delaware courthouse after finalizing the largest defamation settlement in history.