NEW YORK, June 14 (Reuters) – Rudolph Giuliani has sued Smartmatic to recoup legal fees as he defends against its $2.7 billion lawsuit accusing him, Fox News Network and others of falsely claiming that the company helped rig the 2020 U.S. presidential election so Joe Biden would defeat Donald Trump.
In a counterclaim filed late Monday in a New York state court in Manhattan, Giuliani said the voting machine company’s defamation lawsuit, which he characterized as baseless, interfered with his constitutional right to speak freely on issues of public concern.
“Smartmatic’s litigation tactics, including its facially implausible damages claims, are a naked attempt to attack a well-known public figure” and amount to censorship, said Giuliani, a former New York City mayor and lawyer for Trump.
J. Erik Connolly, a lawyer for Smartmatic, said: “Smartmatic is confident in its claims against Mr. Giuliani.”
Fox News and two other defendants, Fox Business anchor Maria Bartiromo and former anchor Lou Dobbs, have filed similar counterclaims citing New York’s “anti-SLAPP” law, short for “strategic lawsuits against public participation.”
They and Giuliani, as well as Smartmatic, are appealing parts of a March 8 decision by state Supreme Court Justice David Cohen allowing most of Smartmatic’s lawsuit to proceed.
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