Less than two weeks after Newsmax's lawsuit accusing Fox News Network of illegal "monopolization" over the "right-leaning pay TV" cable news space was dismissed by a federal judge in Florida , the company filed a strikingly similar lawsuit against the Rupert Murdoch -founded network, this time in Wisconsin .

The new complaint was filed within an hour of Newsmax informing U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon that the company was formally dropping the Florida suit against Fox News.

In the complaint filed Thursday in federal court in the Western District of Wisconsin, Newsmax alleges that Fox has violated antitrust laws by engaging in "longstanding and ongoing" anticompetitive conduct that "leverages [its] market power to coerce distributors into not carrying or into marginalizing other right-

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