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Giuliani, Pirro Thrown Back Into 2020 Vote-Fraud Defamation Case
- Pair were dismissed last year from Smartmatic suit over claims
- Appeals court reversed and ordered them to face company’s suit
Rudy Giuliani at court in Atlanta, Georgia, in 2022.
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A New York appeals court reinstated defamation claims against Rudy Giuliani and Fox News personality Jeanine Pirro over false claims they made about voting fraud in the 2020 presidential election.
Giuliani and Pirro were dismissed last year from the case filed by voting-machine maker Smartmatic Corp., which, along with Dominion Voting Systems Inc., was widely accused of rigging the election against Donald Trump as part of a vast conspiracy theory involving corrupt Democrats, foreign hackers and software linked to Venezuela. But the appellate court in Manhattan overruled that decision Tuesday.