A jury trial will begin on April 22nd in Waycross, Georgia. Both anchors are expected to be grilled about “verifiably false” claims they made during a segment that ran on September 15th, 2020.

Dr. Mahendra Amin, the focus of MSNBC’s reports, is the plaintiff in the suit and alleges her practice as an obstetrician-gynecologist was harmed by the network after providing care for women in ICE custody at the Irwin County Detention Center earlier that year. A whistleblower tipped off NBC, which produced an initial report that was first greeted with skepticism by the network’s standards department.

Regardless, MSNBC picked up the report and ran with it, labeling Dr. Amin the “uterus collector.”

No account from the whistleblower has been verified, Amin’s lawyers say in a filing. MSNBC portrayed their client as “an abusive, unethical, and dishonest physician who treated and operated on immigrant women in an abusive fashion, without consent, and motivated by profit instead of quality healthcare.”

Previously, Judge Lisa Godbey Wood of the Southern District of Georgia ruled that a jury could reasonably find MSNBC guilty of actual malice and allowed the suit to proceed to trial.

“NBC investigated the whistleblower letter’s accusations; that investigation did not corroborate the accusations and even undermined some; NBC republished the letter’s accusations anyway,” Judge Wood wrote last year in a 108-page summary.

Altogether, 23 “false and defamatory” statements about Dr. Amin were made on “Deadline: White House,” “All in with Chris Hayes” and “The Rachel Maddow Show.”

Maddow, Hayes, and fellow on-air talent Nicolle Wallace are among those expected to testify. Other witnesses will likely include NBC News reporters Jacob Soboroff and Julia Ainsley, MSNBC producer Denis Horgan, senior director of stands and practices Mary Lockhart, deputy head of standards Chris Scholl, and others, according to Fox News.

“We are following breaking news today. It’s about an alarming new whistleblower complaint that alleges, quote, high numbers of female detainees, detained immigrants, at an ICE detention center in Georgia received questionable hysterectomies while in ICE custody,” Wallace said during initial coverage of Dr. Amin, which came during a period of “hostile” reporting against the Trump administration in the run-up to the 2020 election.

Wallace told her viewers that reports of unwanted hysterectomies were “swirling around on social media” for days but that new reporting by her team “confirmed” the story. Julia Ainsley, an NBC News reporter, joined her program to concur.

“Our new reporting, Nicolle, is based on conversations with four lawyers who represented clients in this facility over the past three years, and they’re able to really broaden this story out and explain why the whistleblower Dawn Wooten heard what she did. The lawyers tell us that they knew of women who were afraid to go to this doctor, and they identified him,” Ainsley said.

“His name is Mahendra Amin,” she continued. “These women would be taken from the facility to his practice, some said that they came back bruised, that he was overly harsh, they called him abusive… there were women that were told they needed a hysterectomy because they had cancer.”

The free-for-all climate of cable news coverage has become less so in the years following Fox News’ historic settlement with Dominion Voting Systems, which included a $787 million judgment against the network and led to the firing of Tucker Carlson. Earlier this month, CNN lost a judgment against Navy veteran Zachary Smith after he accused anchor Jake Tapper of defaming him with coverage of his work exfiltrating Afghan refugees.