Judge Sets April Retrial Date in Sarah Palin Defamation Action Against NY Times
Lawyers for both the former governor and the broadsheet told the judge they'd begun settlement discussions.
November 12, 2024 at 03:40 PM
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Personal InjuryEx-Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin and the New York Times have begun settlement discussions in the former U.S. Vice Presidential candidate’s defamation case against the broadsheet, attorney revealed during a pretrial conference on Tuesday.
Attorneys for both sides said they’d discussed a non-trial disposition, while U.S. District Court Judge Jed Rakoff of the Southern District of New York set retrial in the case for April 14.
Palin sued the newspaper in 2017 over an editorial that falsely claimed Palin may have inspired a 2011 shooting in Arizona that left six dead and wounded former congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, D-Arizona.
The editorial was corrected, but Palin argued it damaged her reputation.
While a federal jury in Manhattan found the NYT not liable in 2022—after Rakoff stated he would dismiss the case regardless of the verdict—a federal appeals court in August revived the case.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit found that Rakoff wrongly excluded certain pieces of evidence pertaining to “actual malice” and incorrectly instructed jurors about the standard of proof required in the case.
The appeals court also found Rakoff’s comments about dismissing the case likely tainted deliberations—as they were seen by jurors who received push alerts from media organizations on their cell phones.
Palin, 60, is represented by Kenneth Turkel and Shane Vogt of Turkel Cuva Barrios.
The Times is represented by a team from Ballard Spahr.
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