WILMINGTON, Delaware, April 9 (Reuters) - Cable

broadcaster Newsmax Media defamed Dominion Voting

Systems with its false reporting accusing the voting machine

company of rigging the 2020 U.S. presidential election, a

Delaware judge ruled on Wednesday.

Dominion is seeking $1.6 billion in damages which will be

determined by a Delaware jury at a trial that is scheduled to

begin on April 28 in Wilmington, said Delaware Superior Court

Judge Eric Davis.