The Murdoch family waged a secret court battle over succession. A voting machine company is trying to pry the case open

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Smartmatic, the voting technology company suing Fox News over its promotion of 2020 election lies, is trying to obtain evidence from the secret court battle between Rupert Murdoch and his children over the future of his right-wing media empire.

For the first time, Smartmatic has gone directly to the probate court in Nevada and asked a commissioner to turn over some of the secret documents in that case, a source told CNN. The voting technology company wants to examine sealed documents from the family fight that it thinks will bolster its defamation lawsuit against Fox, according to a source familiar with recent filings in the Murdoch trust case.

A Fox spokesperson and attorneys for the Murdochs did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Lawyers for Fox previously said in Smartmatic’s election defamation case that they oppose disseminating the records from the family trust fight. “That litigation is entirely irrelevant to this case,” Fox lawyer Winn Allen told a judge during a hearing last month. “That is litigation pending in a Nevada probate court, and concerns changes that Mr.

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