02/14/2022

Judge Dismisses Palin Libel Case Against New York Times

The libel suit was over a 2017 editorial

A judge has ruled that a libel lawsuit former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin filed against The New York Times over a 2017 editorial should be dismissed.

The ruling came because Palin's lawyers failed to produce evidence that the newspaper knew what it wrote about her was false or acted recklessly towards indications it was false.

The ruling from U.S. District Court Judge Jed Rakoff came as a Manhattan jury was deliberating on Palin's suit, which claimed the nation's leading newspaper defamed her by unfairly linking her to a 2011 shooting spree in Arizona that killed six people and gravely wounded then-Rep. Gabby Giffords.

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