"This is not an honest mistake about a passing reference. For her, it was a life-changer, he told the jury."
"Palin and other conservatives viewed the case as a vehicle to overturn the landmark New York Times v. Sullivan, fundamentally changing libel law."
Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin lost her defamation lawsuit against the New York Times regarding a 2017 editorial that mistakenly linked her political action committee to the Tucson shooting. A federal jury found that there was no libel, which follows an earlier appeal that also favored the Times. The case carries implications beyond Palin, as it poses a potential challenge to the precedent established by New York Times v. Sullivan, which requires public figures to show actual malice in defamation cases.
Read at www.mediaite.com
Unable to calculate read time
Collection
[
|
...
]