{"id":207167,"date":"2025-09-07T08:29:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-07T08:29:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/207167\/"},"modified":"2025-09-07T08:29:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T08:29:12","slug":"judge-dismisses-newsmaxs-case-giving-fox-the-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/207167\/","title":{"rendered":"Judge dismisses Newsmax\u2019s case, giving Fox the win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A federal judge has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2025\/09\/05\/newsmax-fox-news-lawsuit-dismissed.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">dismissed<\/a> Newsmax\u2019s high-profile antitrust <a href=\"https:\/\/www.salon.com\/2025\/09\/03\/newsmax-sues-fox-news-over-alleged-monopoly-on-conservative-news\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">lawsuit<\/a> against Fox News, but the case is far from over.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"408\" data-end=\"922\">Judge <a href=\"https:\/\/www.salon.com\/topic\/aileen_cannon\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Aileen Cannon<\/a>, of the Southern District of Florida, threw out the complaint this week, <a href=\"https:\/\/storage.courtlistener.com\/recap\/gov.uscourts.flsd.696359\/gov.uscourts.flsd.696359.9.0.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ruling<\/a> that Newsmax\u2019s filing amounted to a \u201cshotgun pleading.\u201d The term refers to a legal complaint that improperly incorporates all previous allegations into each count, making it difficult for the court to evaluate the claims on their own merits. Cannon has previously made headlines for her handling of the classified-documents case against former President Donald Trump, drawing national attention and controversy to her courtroom.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"924\" data-end=\"1260\">Newsmax filed the suit earlier this year, alleging that Fox News used its dominant position in the conservative media space to squeeze Newsmax out of cable distribution deals and harm its advertising business. The network accused Fox of anticompetitive practices, arguing that it had suffered significant financial damage as a result.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1262\" data-end=\"1450\">In a statement, Newsmax framed the dismissal as a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/legal\/litigation\/newsmax-refile-lawsuit-against-fox-after-judge-faults-shotgun-complaint-2025-09-05\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">procedural setback<\/a> rather than a defeat, saying it would refile a clearer version of the complaint by the court\u2019s September 11 deadline.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1452\" data-end=\"1670\">Fox News welcomed the decision, arguing that Newsmax\u2019s legal strategy is a distraction from its business challenges. \u201cNewsmax cannot sue their way out of their own competitive failures,\u201d the network said regarding the original lawsuit filing.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1672\" data-end=\"1859\">The refiled case will be closely watched, not only for its potential impact on conservative media but also for what it signals about Cannon\u2019s approach to politically charged litigation.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1672\" data-end=\"1859\">[Corrected to clarify a statement by Fox News. Sept. 6, 2025 at 8:06 p.m. ET]<\/p>\n<p class=\"red_box\">Read more<\/p>\n<p class=\"white_box\">about this topic<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A federal judge has dismissed Newsmax\u2019s high-profile antitrust lawsuit against Fox News, but the case is far from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":207168,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[64,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-207167","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-united-states","10":"tag-unitedstates","11":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115162078495050800","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207167\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}