Judge: Newsmax Engaged In ‘Forum Shopping’ In Cable Distributors Suit Against Fox

( April 28, 2026, 1:07 PM EDT) -- MADISON, Wis. — A Wisconsin federal judge granted a motion to transfer a suit filed by Newsmax Broadcasting LLC against Fox News Network LLC and Fox Corp. alleging violations of the Sherman Act and related Wisconsin law regarding Fox’s purported use of its “market power to coerce distributors into not carrying or into marginalizing other right-leaning news channels, including Newsmax,” finding that the suit should be transferred to the Southern District of Florida in part because Newsmax is a Florida-based company and failed to show why the case should be “tried in Wisconsin.”...