The Superior Court of Delaware ruled Monday that Smartmatic will not be eligible for punitive damages in its defamation case against Newsmax.
This is a major ruling in favor of Newsmax.
The court ruled that since Newsmax had never engaged in express malice — meaning it never intended to harm Smartmatic — the election services company could not claim punitive damages.
Monday’s ruling means that to recover any damages, Smartmatic must prove to a jury that Newsmax’s coverage caused Smartmatic’s actual losses.
Newsmax’s reporting did not cause Smartmatic damages, and after extensive discovery Smartmatic has offered no evidence of such claimed damages.
Newsmax covered both sides of the dispute after the 2020 election. The Smartmatic suit against Newsmax threatens freedom of speech and freedom of press.
For more than a decade, Smartmatic was the preferred election company for Venezuela’s brutal Chavez/Maduro regime, where their services were publicly criticized.
The evidence is there that Dominion/Smartmatic facilitated the steal in 2020. Used in Nevada, Arizona, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Michigan and Georgia. They are going to have to really skew the results this time! Btw, I would love to see the proof that they did not cheat!! No one ever asks that ?.