VERMONT LAW — Vermont Law and Graduate School President Rodney Smolla was sitting in a board of trustees meeting on Tuesday when he found out he won his “own Super Bowl,” he said. Three years ago, Smolla, an expert on defamation and libel law, was pulled on to Dominion Voting Systems’ legal team to craft a case against Fox News. The broadcast news channel had begun its assault on the company’s voting machines, airing programming that called into question the validity of the votes tallied by the machines in the 2020 presidential election. This week, Fox settled with Dominion for $787.5 million, one of the largest settlements in a defamation case in U.S. history.