She’s a private citizen. Any lies that the publisher allowed to be printed amount to defamation.
hm... well I guess that means she’s not running for sure, because if she was running she would no longer be a “private citizen” subject to protection, but a public servant subject to any and all attacks.
The law of defamation will treat Palin as public figure, which typically means people can get away with saying and writing almost anything about you, because the standard for such plaintiffs is “actual malice,” a legal term of art meaning that the defamer must know his statements were false, or speak/write with reckless disregard of whether or not his statements are false. That standard is virtually never met, because defamers don’t admit these things to other people, let alone in writing.
But the idiot McGinniss did.
The good news is that she probably can as McGinness certainly showed malice.
She's a public personality. As such it's much harder to prove defamation than it is for a private individual. But be that as it may, it doesn't hurt to make Random House squirm and jump through some hoops in the mean time.
“She’s a private citizen.”
That makes her smarter than the average bear. If you recollect, back when she was governor and running as VP, the charges and accusations were flying all around and she had to defend them. When she resigned as governor and became a private citizen she reclaimed her right to counter sue, all that crap stopped.
There has been a howl for her to get into the Presidential race, but the wisdom of staying out has been proven again. She is free to pursue litigation against Radon House and Mc Ginness.
After what has happened to Bachmann, Perry, etal. not declaring is wise. Each candidate with a chance of becoming the Presidential candidate has been swarmed by the lib media and cast off as irrelevant.
The private citizen aspect of Sarah Palin’s status, needs some legal clearification. That there was admissions of the false statements in the book opens up litigation to all the principals. This is the reason for the admonition against the deletion of correspondence concerning the case.