Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin arrives to Federal court, Thursday, Feb. 3, 2022, in New York. Palin is due back in the New York City courtroom more than a week after her libel trial against The New York Times was postponed because she tested positive for COVID-19. Photo: John Minchillo/AP.
A lawyer for The New York Times told a Manhattan federal civil jury on Thursday that the paper never intended to defame Sarah Palin when a 2017 editorial falsely linked the former Alaska governor’s political action committee to a deadly shooting in Arizona.
The attorney, Ballard Spahr partner David Axelrod, admitted that The Times and its then opinion editor, Michael Bennet, made a “regrettable error,” but had moved quickly to correct the piece, which was published in the immediate aftermath of a Virginia shooting that targeted members of the Republican congressional baseball team.
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