Palin Loses Bid For New Trial In NY Times Libel Case

The New York Times reports:

Sarah Palin lost her bid for a new trial in her libel case against The New York Times on Tuesday, with a judge ruling that she had failed to introduce “even a speck” of evidence necessary to prove the newspaper had defamed her in a 2017 editorial.

The written decision by Judge Jed S. Rakoff of U.S. District Court said that while mistakes were made as editors rushed to meet deadlines, “a mistake is not enough to win if it was not motivated by actual malice.”

The libel suit by Ms. Palin, a former Republican vice-presidential candidate and governor of Alaska, focused on an editorial that falsely linked her campaign rhetoric to a 2011 mass shooting in Arizona. The Times corrected the editorial the morning after it was published.

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Sarah Palin lost her bid for a new trial in her libel case against The New York Times. A judge ruled that she had failed to produce “even a speck” of evidence to prove the newspaper had defamed her in a 2017 editorial. https://t.co/fCeia4GPZo

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