Sarah Palin’s defamation suit retrial against the New York Times raises first amendment concerns
She lost the first trial in 2022, but she gets ‘second bite of the apple’ due to a judge’s procedural errors
When Sarah Palin arrived at a federal court on Monday, her appearance promised little in the way of legal fireworks.
Palin was in downtown Manhattan for a retrial in her defamation lawsuit against the New York Times. She lost her first trial against the newspaper in 2022 and the legal basis of Palin’s civil claim – that an incorrect editorial unlawfully smeared her – remains the same.
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