Posted on 08/29/2020 1:02:31 PM PDT by Twotone
Sarah Palin's defamation lawsuit against The New York Times is moving forward and headed to trial after a federal judge ruled Friday that a jury will decide whether the newspaper acted with "actual malice" when it published a false editorial pointing to Palin as the motivation behind the 2011 assassination attempt on former Rep. Gabby Giffords (D-Ariz.).
What are the details?
Palin sued The Times in 2017 over a piece that linked materials distributed by the former Alaskan governor's political action committee and the Tucson, Arizona, mass murder at a Giffords event that left six people dead and Giffords injured.
An excerpt from the editorial — which was later corrected — read:
Was this attack evidence of how vicious American politics has become? Probably. In 2011, Jared Lee Loughner opened fire in a supermarket parking lot, grievously wounding Representative Gabby Giffords and killing six people, including a 9-year-old girl. At the time, we and others were sharply critical of the heated political rhetoric on the right. Before the shooting, Sarah Palin's political action committee circulated a map that showed the targeted electoral districts of Ms. Giffords and 19 other Democrats under stylized cross hairs.
The lawsuit has been tied up in the courts ever since, and on Friday, Manhattan Federal Judge Jed Rakoff denied The Times' request to bring the case to a close, which Law & Crime called "a major procedural win" for Palin.
(Excerpt) Read more at theblaze.com ...
Opinions are a world apart from accusations and insinuations!
Opinions are presentation of an individuals beliefs on one matter or another, NOT an ACCUSATION of culpability in an action carried out by another.
Opinions can be published in speech or in print.
I hope she hands their family jewels to them after severing them with a dull butter knife....never has a filthy Democrat media mouthpiece deserved to be drawn and quartered like these pukes....
Nail them Sarah...!!!
Good, and hopefully Krugman will also get the legal smackdown he deserved long ago.
Who?
Yes, but in this case it was libel and it was in print.
Good! It’s about time the New York Times pays for the crap they have been printing.
This this a attack or a statement that is critical?
"Sarah Palin's political action committee circulated a map that showed the targeted electoral districts of Ms. Giffords and 19 other Democrats under stylized cross hairs"
None of us like the NYT but this is a very weak case. Assuming this is all there is. There are clear cases of attacks by the NYT. Unless there is more to this case this done before it started.
Some of Jared Laughner favored books was Mein Kampf and The Communist Manifesto. Both from the dialectical materialism / Hegelian Dialectic of putting everyone into categories of status then pitting one group against the other. The bases of leftist beliefs. In other words the NYT is flat wrong about everything they said in this statement. It had nothing to do with Palin. Laughner had to have hated her as one of the key figures on against his beliefs
That’s what libel means - published printed defamation (as opposed to published speech defamation).
lin wood for the plaintiff?
If an “opinion” defames someone who can prove damages and if necessary malice, then that “opinion” is liable.
Published political opinion is protected. But published opinion about another person is subject to the rules of defamation.
Oh please. Put me on the jury. I’d award her $1billion dollars.
The problem wasn't opinion, it was the false characterization of what, obviously, were cartographic fiducial icons (aka, "Placemarkers") -- as rifle scope reticles (falsely called, "crosshairs").
The Slimes was so anxious to play "Gotcha!" that they didn't do due diligence with an internet image search...
TXnMA
(Cartographer and Shooter)
I can see the New York Times bankruptcy from my front porch.
The idea that journalists and publishers of a newspaper are unfamiliar with registration marks is absurd.
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