In a swift Monday afternoon ruling, a federal judge threw out former Gov. Sarah Palin’s libel lawsuit against the New York Times, Politico reports.
According to the news outlet, U.S. District Court Judge Jed Rakoff ruled that a libel lawsuit former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin filed against the New York Times over a 2017 editorial should be thrown out because her lawyers “failed to produce evidence that the newspaper knew what it wrote about her was false or acted recklessly towards indications it was false.”
The ruling from Judge Rakoff came as a Manhattan jury was deliberating on Palin’s suit, which “claimed the Times defamed her by unfairly linking her to a 2011 shooting spree in Arizona that killed six people and gravely wounded then-Rep. Gabby Giffords,” Politico reported.
Even though Rakoff is tossing the suit, he would continue to allow the jury to deliberate to a verdict on the grounds that he believes the case will inevitably be appealed.
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