told a Federal court on September 16, 2022, that Mike Lindell was still repeating the same baseless claims against the company: "The problem here is the lawsuit is based on the public figures making very public lies about Dominion. Unfortunately, the lies have continued." She went on to say that the continuing lies have resulted in continued threats of violence against the company. As the case was entering the discovery stage, she expressed concern that Lindell would not abide by the rules of non-disclosure. Judge Nichols set aside time for the parties to designate documents for confidentiality before further action would be taken. Lindell had recently bragged publicly of disregarding an FBI request to not disclose the seizure of his phone in an unrelated criminal case involving Tina Peters, a Republican Mesa County clerk who was charged in engaging in a data breach of Dominion Voting System machines. It was announced on October 3, 2022, that the Supreme Court of the United States had declined Mike Lindell's appeal against Judge Carl Nichols' ruling; allowing Dominion's case to proceed. On October 20, 2022, Fox's lawyers asked the court to sanction Dominion alleging they destroyed evidence - electronic messages between CEO John Poulos and senior executives Kay Stinson and Waldeep Singh. Fox argues this should result in the jury being instructed that they "must presume the messages contained information unfavorable to Plaintiffs...and information undermining Plaintiffs' damages calculation," or that the case be dismissed and Dominion fined for spoliation. Dominion holds Fox's claim about spoliation is "meritless" and "a distraction." On December 5, 2022 The U.S. Supreme Court declined to take up a case, Kevin O’Rourke, et al., v. Dominion Voting Systems, Inc., et al., rejected by lower courts. The plaintiffs had alleged that Dominion, Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, Priscilla Chan, and the Center for Tech and Civic Life "engaged in concerted action to interfere with the 2020 presidential election through a coordinated effort to, among other things, change voting laws without legislative approval, use unreliable voting machines, alter, votes through an illegitimate adjudication process...[and] privately fund only certain municipalities and counties." This left in place federal judge N. Reid Neureiter's ruling that the plaintiffs lacked standing. In early December 2022, the Delaware Superior Court filed notice that Lachlan Murdoch would be deposed under oath at a Los Angeles law firm. The deposition was set to begin on December 5 and "will continue from