The former republican vice presidential candidate and governor of Alaska, Sarah Palin, will have a second chance to prove the New York Times For defamation when the holidays meet in a court of the New York court on Monday.
An appeal court revived the case last August, after several turns and turns that saw a district court throw it.
Breitbart News reported at that time:
As Breitbart News reported in February 2022, the American judge Jed S. Rakoff, appointed by Bill Clinton in the Federal Bank in the Southern District of New York, dismissed the case, even the jurors were still deliberating on the verdict.
Palin Headquarters the times on a 2017 editorial in which he said he had inspired the mass shooting of 2011 in Tucson, Arizona. Judge Rakoff initially dismissed the case, but was revived by a Federal Court of Appeals. After the presentation of the arguments in the initial movements, Rakoff decided that Palin had enough evidence to allow the case to be trial: a rarity in the demands of defamation for public figures against the media, since the standard of testing “real malice” is usual.
In addition, Rakoff sent the case to the jury after closing arguments last week. But on Monday, as David Folkenflik reported from NPR, he had doubts and said that Palin did not meet the standard of “real malice” due to the correction of the Times, and the editor’s contribution of the James Bennet editorial page.
The jury found against Palin already please the TimesBut only after he learned or Rakoff’s decision to dismiss the case.
A panel of three judges of the second circuit, including two appointed by George W. Bush, and one from Donald Trump, controlled by Wednesday’s appointment, which Rakoff had acted incorrectly and ordered a new trial.
The Retuertos said: “The trial occurs when the surveys show the Americans who increasingly distrust the main media, as more people receive their news from social networks and points of sale whose points of view according to their own.”
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