Sarah Palin loses NYT defamation lawsuit 1 day after judge says he'll dismiss case

Sarah Palin.
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Former Republican vice-presidential candidate and governor of Alaska Sarah Palin lost her lawsuit against The New York Times after a federal jury on Tuesday found that the publication did not defame her in an editorial linking her political action committee to the 2011 shooting of former Rep. Gabby Giffords (D-Ariz.), The Wall Street Journal reports.

The verdict arrived just a day after a judge in the case said he would dismiss the lawsuit. Judge Jed Rakoff ruled that Palin "had failed to provide enough evidence that her reputation had been damaged by the editorial published in June 2017," CNBC writes. In order to win the case, Palin would have had to prove the Times acted with "actual malice," and knowingly or recklessly published false information about her.

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Brigid Kennedy

Brigid Kennedy worked at The Week from 2021 to 2023 as a staff writer, junior editor and then story editor, with an interest in U.S. politics, the economy and the music industry.