A now-corrected editorial by The New York Times erroneously linking former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin to a 2011 mass shooting may have bordered on negligence, but did not constitute actual malice, a federal judge in Manhattan said in an order dismissing her defamation suit.
In a 26-page ruling issued on Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Jed Rakoff of the Southern District of New York said the June 14 editorial written in the immediate aftermath of a shooting in Virginia at a practice session for charity baseball game featuring Republican members of Congress contained a “few factual inaccuracies” that were “very rapidly corrected.”
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