A Washington state judge handed Fox News a victory on Wednesday in a legal fight with a small nonprofit organization alleging the network’s early coverage of the coronavirus put viewers at risk.
On Wednesday, King County Superior Court Judge Brian McDonald granted Fox News’s motion to dismiss the lawsuit filed by the Washington League for Increased Transparency and Ethics, which the network argued was a “frontal assault on the freedom of speech” that “flagrantly violates the First Amendment and fails to state a claim.”
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