So Karl seems to have lied in most of his reporting about the case.

Defamation suits usually work out that way. They pretend it was about the frivolous nonsense or obvious jokes to try and sway the public opinion to them, and not the major, actually damaging part. The part that makes the judge not laugh it out of the room from the outset.

Its like the Gawker/Hogan one, where they pretended it was about free speech and funny sex tape and not the fact that they literally ignored a court order saying they couldn't do that.