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Posted on 04/22/2025 4:22:17 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Sarah Palin on Tuesday lost in the retrial of her defamation case against the New York Times – a second defeat in the efforts by the former Republican vice-presidential candidate.
A federal jury in New York deliberated for two hours then found the newspaper not liable for allegedly defaming Palin in a 2017 editorial about gun control. Palin appeared dejected as she left the courthouse in Manhattan.
The case garnered much attention not just because Palin and the Times are household names across the US but because it raised broader issues about free speech in the era of the return of Donald Trump, who relishes repeatedly calling the mainstream media versions of the “enemy of the people”.
It also highlighted the issue of malice as a legal standard that requires the plaintiff in such a case to prove that false information was published about them either knowingly or with reckless disregard for the truth.
The verdict came in the retrial of Palin’s case, after a federal appeals court threw out a 2022 verdict that came down in favor of the New York Times.
Palin, 61, who also served as Alaska’s governor, sued the newspaper and former editorial page editor James Bennet over an article that inaccurately suggested she may have incited a January 2011 mass shooting in an Arizona parking lot.
Six people were killed and the Democratic congresswoman Gabby Giffords was seriously wounded in the attack, with others also injured, as she held an open-air session outside a supermarket in the Tucson area to talk with constituents.
The editorial piece about gun control, citing that earlier mass shooting, was published after the Republican congressman Steve Scalise of Louisiana was wounded when...
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No way would she ever have won with a NYC jury.
It should’ve been filed in Abilene Texas. The New York Times sells papers there, they defamed her in that jurisdiction. Why do people keep filing in New York, it’s not required. That’s the headquarters of the New York Times, but they committed the tort all across the nation.
If the New York Times owned truck runs over me and Denver, I don’t have to make the pilgrimage to New York to sue them. I can sue them wherever the tort occurred. That’s what the Democrats do to us.
Trial was in Filth York. What did she expect.
Switch any retrial venue west of the Mississippi except CA and WA and she wins.
Well said.
Sarah was led to the slaughter
Yup, all you need to know, 'NYC' jury.
Or OR
Poor woman never catches a break.
Blind justice? Hardly.
Next time file the suit in Panama City, Florida.
Its impossible for a Republican or a Conservative to get a fair trial in New York.
Her lawyer is probably in NY and didn’t want to spend 3 months in Abilene Texas.
Is that Luigi?
“Her lawyer is probably in NY and didn’t want to spend 3 months in Abilene Texas.”
BFD... there are plenty of very good attorneys in question in Texas and the Southwest who would. And her New York lawyer couldn’t have been very good if he didn’t tell advise her to do what I said.
A blind man would know that a repub like Palin suing the NYT in Manhattan cannot possibly be won.
Why didn’t she sue in Alaska?
Defamation is a tough putt even with a fair venue.
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