Palin Wins Bid For New Defamation Trial Against NYT

August 28, 2024 Crackpots, Republicans

Sarah Palin on Wednesday won her bid for a new trial against the New York Times over an editorial that the former Alaska governor said was defamatory.

The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said Palin can try again to prove that the Times should be liable for a 2017 editorial that incorrectly linked her to a mass shooting six years earlier that killed six people and seriously wounded Democratic U.S. congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords.

Writing for a three-judge panel, Circuit Judge John Walker agreed with Palin that U.S. District Judge Jed Rakoff had made several errors that tainted the February 2022 trial against the Times and former editorial page editor James Bennet.

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NEW: The Second Circuit just vacated the New York Times’ defeat of Sarah Palin’s defamation claims and ordered a new trial. Story TK.

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