https://www.thedailybeast.com/dominion-uses-fox-news-ceo-suzanne-scotts-words-against-network-in-defamation-caseQuote
Suzanne Scott warned colleagues that “we can’t give the crazies an inch” as Trump raged against Fox over its Arizona call and some network stars questioned the projection.
In a court proceeding earlier this week, Dominion’s lawyer Justin Nelson revealed Scott’s remarks while arguing that his legal team should be able to review the employment contract of 13 Fox News executives
Additionally, Nelson argued that senior Fox News executives tried to stop pro-Trump network stars Lou Dobbs and Maria Bartiromo from booking Trump’s campaign lawyers Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell on their shows in the aftermath of the election to push baseless voter fraud conspiracies.
The hosts, however, did give the former president’s allies—and even Trump himself—airtime to push their evidence-free assertions that Dominion’s machines had rigged the election and stolen the White House from Trump.
Fox’s attorneys, meanwhile, continue to dispute Dominion’s allegation that the network’s executives knowingly let discredited election fraud conspiracy theories air
Nelson, though, pointed to documents obtained from Fox that “talks about the daily editorial meeting that occurs, including almost all of these executives that we’re looking at right now.”
When suing for libel or defamation of a public figure, such as a large voting machine company, one must prove actual malice.
The actual malice standard was established in 1964 in which 'the Supreme Court has held that public officials cannot recover damages for libel without proving that a statement was made with actual malice — defined as “with knowledge that it was false or with reckless disregard of whether it was false or not.”'
These emails seem to prove that Fox News executives specifically knew the claims were false, but allowed them to air regardless, which would appear to meet the actual malice standard.