Rudy Giuliani has to face two more claims in Smartmatic's defamation lawsuit.
An appeals court reinstated the defamation claims from the election tech company over 2020 conspiracy theories.

The court also gave Smartmatic a shot at suing Fox Corporation, the parent company of Fox News. A New York appeals court on Tuesday reinstated two claims in Smartmatic's defamation lawsuit against Rudy Giuliani over the lawyer's false claims that the election technology company rigged the 2020 election.

Smartmatic first filed its lawsuit in February 2021 against the conservative media network; its hosts Jeanine Pirro, Maria Bartiromo, and Lou Dobbs; and Trump lawyers Giuliani and Sidney Powell. The lawsuit alleged Giuliani and Powell pushed a false theory that Smartmatic had flipped votes from then-President Trump to now-President Biden, and Fox News either egged them on or failed to sufficiently challenge those claims.