Source: SFGate
“Gov. Gavin Newsom is celebrating a win after a judge ruled last week that his $787 million defamation lawsuit against Fox News can move forward. Newsom filed the defamation lawsuit in June against the conservative-leaning news network, alleging it misled the public about a phone conversation that took place between the California governor and President Donald Trump during civil unrest that erupted in Los Angeles earlier that month. Judge Sean P. Lugg said in an April 30 decision rejecting the network’s motion to dismiss that he found it ‘reasonably conceivable’ that Fox knew the statements were false before making them. ‘Looking forward to discovery,’ Newsom wrote Thursday on X after the judge’s decision, alluding to the legal process where each side turns over documents, including private communications that could be embarrassing.” (05/04/26)
https://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/newsom-trump-lawsuit-fox-news-22236767.php