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BumRushDaShow

(160,177 posts)
Sat Sep 13, 2025, 03:13 AM Saturday

Newsmax ducks Judge Cannon with new lawsuit accusing Fox News of monopolizing 'right-leaning' news

Source: Law & Crime

Sep 12th, 2025, 3:31 pm


Less than two weeks after Newsmax's lawsuit accusing Fox News Network of illegal "monopolization" over the "right-leaning pay TV" cable news space was dismissed by a federal judge in Florida, the company filed a strikingly similar lawsuit against the Rupert Murdoch-founded network, this time in Wisconsin.

The new complaint was filed within an hour of Newsmax informing U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon that the company was formally dropping the Florida suit against Fox News.

In the complaint filed Thursday in federal court in the Western District of Wisconsin, Newsmax alleges that Fox has violated antitrust laws by engaging in "longstanding and ongoing" anticompetitive conduct that "leverages [its] market power to coerce distributors into not carrying or into marginalizing other right-leaning news channels, including Newsmax."

Newsmax said of the venue maneuver that the company is permitted to file the suit in any district where it was affected by the allegedly unlawful actions of Fox News, Reuters reported.

Read more: https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/newsmax-ducks-judge-cannon-with-new-lawsuit-accusing-fox-news-of-monopolizing-right-leaning-news-after-she-tossed-initial-case/



Full headline: Newsmax ducks Judge Cannon with new lawsuit accusing Fox News of monopolizing 'right-leaning' news after she tossed initial case

Link to SUIT (PDF viewer) - https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/26090519-newsmax-antitrust-complaint-wd-wis364805602docx/

Link to SUIT (PDF) - https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/26090519/newsmax-antitrust-complaint-wd-wis364805602docx.pdf
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Newsmax ducks Judge Cannon with new lawsuit accusing Fox News of monopolizing 'right-leaning' news (Original Post) BumRushDaShow Saturday OP
Cannon would have delayed, delayed, delayed, only to dismiss the case two years from now. Mawspam2 Saturday #1
But the quandary BumRushDaShow Saturday #2
How does she keep getting these cases? Aren't there any other judges down there? Scrivener7 Saturday #3
If someone files in the Southern District of Florida, BumRushDaShow Saturday #4
I thought Fox timms139 Saturday #5
Cannon's a joke DoBW Saturday #6

BumRushDaShow

(160,177 posts)
2. But the quandary
Sat Sep 13, 2025, 05:25 AM
Saturday

is that these are 2 RW loon news broadcasters battling it out and both go "in and out of favor" with 45!

BumRushDaShow

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4. If someone files in the Southern District of Florida,
Sat Sep 13, 2025, 09:00 AM
Saturday

it could land in any of the courts that are up and down the southeast coast of the state (they usually try to get it close to where the complaint originated).

Newsmax has one of their HQ offices in Boca Raton, so they are located within the SDFL.

I expect where Cannon is - up further north of the cluster of courts in that district - hers (Ft. Pierce) is probably the least "busy" (compared to the courts in say, Miami).

So with only a handful of judges in her courthouse and their random case rotation, she ends up being "it" (also as a "dumping ground" given she was low in seniority).

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