Source: New York Post
“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 US 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 Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.). Lawyers for Palin argued that US District Judge Jed Rakoff, who oversaw the February 2022 trial, wrongly excluded evidence of the Times’[s] actual malice and wrongly instructed jurors to disregard some of that evidence. Media critics, and Palin herself, have viewed the case as a possible vehicle to overturn New York Times v. Sullivan, the landmark 1964 US Supreme Court decision that set a high bar for public figures to prove defamation.” (08/28/24)
https://nypost.com/2024/08/28/us-news/sarah-palin-wins-new-trial-in-new-york-times-defamation-case/