The Seth Rich family lawsuit against Fox News is reinstated in a court decision

News travels past Fox News Studios in News Corporation's main building in New York on Tuesday, August 1, 2017.AP

• A federal court in Manhattan has reinstated a lawsuit against Fox News by the family of Seth Rich, DNC staffer, murdered.
• In May 2017, Fox News released a retracted report that Rich was allegedly murdered as part of a plot to conceal the leak of emails to WikiLeaks.
• Rich's family claims that Fox New's promotion of this baseless conspiracy has caused them great distress.
• "While we offer our most sincere condolences to the Rich family, we believe that his discovery will show that FOX News has not engaged in a behavior that would support the claims of the Riches.We will evaluate our next legal steps", Fox News said in a statement.

A federal court in Manhattan on Friday reinstated Fox News's family lawsuit against Seth Rich, which means the family can sue the network for publishing an article alleging that the DNC staff member was murdered in the US. frame of a plot.

Rich's family started a lawsuit against Fox News in a lawsuit in May 2017, alleging that Rich could have been murdered for the leak of thousands of DNC emails to WikiLeaks.

Washington DC police said that Rich's death in July 2016 was the result of a robbery, but that did not prevent the emergence of an elaborate right-wing conspiracy and unfounded, alleging that he was allegedly killed in retaliation for disclosing e-mails.

According to a Yahoo News survey in July, the conspiracy theory was developed by the Russian intelligence services and broadcast by the right-wing US media.

The special advocate, Robert Mueller, said in his report on Russia's interference in the 2016 presidential election that WikiLeaks co-founder Julian Assange, in a public statement, had suggested that Rich was the source of leaked emails from the DNC published by the site. But according to the report, these statements aimed to mask the true source of leaks: Russian intelligence.

Fox News finally retracted the story after widespread criticism a week after its release, but it had been pushed by network hosts, including Sean Hannity.

In a lawsuit in 2018, Rich's parents, Joel and Mary Rich, said that Fox's promotion of the plot had caused them serious distress and anxiety. But a judge in the Southern District of New York rejected the lawsuit. The decision of the court of appeal on Friday cancels that decision, Reuters reported Friday.

The family is suing Fox News, Malia Zimmerman, who recounted the story retracted, and Ed Butowsky, and a Texan businessman and former unpaid Fox News contributor for emotional distress.

Fox News in a statement disputed the Rich family's allegations.

"The court's ruling today authorizes Mr. and Mrs. Rich to conduct a questioning to determine whether there is a factual basis to their complaint against FOX News," the network said in a statement. "And while we express our deepest condolences to the Rich family, we believe his discovery will demonstrate that FOX News has not engaged in behavior that would support the Riches' claims, and we will evaluate our next legal steps."

Zimmerman declined to comment via a Fox News spokesperson, CNN reported.

Ty Clevenger, Butowsky's lawyer, told CNN that he was "confident that we can prove that the allegations are false".

In a statement to NPR, Joel and Mary Rich said, "We would not wish we had lived with another parent – anywhere.We appreciate the decision of the court of appeal and look forward to continuing to do justice. "