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- Fox News claims Dominion's $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit poses a grave threat to free speech.
- Some First Amendment experts worry a Dominion victory could erode legal protections for the press.
- Others think it's important for the media to lose sometimes — especially in this case.
Lawyers love bombast. In any court case, it's common for attorneys to argue that the stakes for their client are so high, it would be a devastating injustice for a judge or jury to rule against them. But even by the standards of the profession, the language in Dominion's $1.6 billion lawsuit against Fox News has been downright apocalyptic.