WILMINGTON, Delaware, April 9 (Reuters) - Cable broadcaster Newsmax Media NMAX.N 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.

(Reporting by Tom Hals in Wilmington, Delaware and Jack Queen in New York; Editing by Chris Reese)

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