December 04, 2017
A private detective who claims he was misquoted in a now-retracted Fox News article about the killing of a Democratic National Committee aide has not been defamed and consented to the quotes' publication, the media company told a New York federal judge Friday.
November 07, 2017
Fox News Channel contributor Ed Butowsky is pushing for sanctions against an attorney who represents a private investigator suing him and the network over a retracted story, claiming the lawyer filed the litigation just to create a media circus.
October 31, 2017
Fox News urged a New York federal judge Monday to send to arbitration a private detective's claims he was misquoted in a story about a Democratic National Committee aide's murder, arguing he made similar statements during on-air appearances, which are subject to an employment contract with an arbitration clause.
October 24, 2017
A private detective said Monday in Manhattan federal court that Fox News cannot force him to arbitrate defamation allegations against the network because he was not acting in his capacity as a paid on-air contributor when he was allegedly misquoted by the network in an online article about a Washington, D.C., murder.
September 20, 2017
A wealthy Trump supporter accused of pushing a bogus murder conspiracy story on Fox News asked a Manhattan federal judge Tuesday to impose sanctions against a private investigator at the center of the dispute and his attorney for filing a frivolous lawsuit.
September 19, 2017
A Fox News contributor can't bring a defamation suit against the company based on quotes he pre-approved and repeated himself on other shows, Fox told a New York federal court Monday in hopes of dismissing a suit related to a now-retracted article about the killing of a Democratic National Committee aide.
August 01, 2017
President Donald Trump reviewed efforts by Fox News Channel and a Republican donor to craft a now-retracted article about the killing of a Democratic National Committee aide, according to a defamation suit filed Tuesday in New York federal court by a Fox contributor.