In a rebuke of a $250 million suit filed against Fox News and former host Lou Dobbs, Kirkland & Ellis attorneys claim a Venezuelan businessman’s links to cocaine trafficking and international terrorism should cause the dismissal of the defamation claims, according to newly filed counterclaims.

In a trio of filings submitted Monday night, Kirkland & Ellis attorney Robert W. Allen, on behalf of Fox News, Fox Corp. and former network host Lou Dobbs, pointed to news reports which they argue support their claims under New York’s Anti-SLAPP law. Fox says that law protects it from Venezuela businessman Majed Khalil’s defamation suit filed in December 2021 in New York state court. 

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