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Jury Sides with NY Times in Palin Defamation Case…Again – HotAir

After deliberating for about two hours a jury in Sarah Palin’s case against the NY Times sided with the newspaper, finding the Times was not liable for defaming Palin back in 2017.





The jury deliberated a little over two hours before reaching its verdict after lawyers for Palin and the newspaper delivered closing arguments at a Manhattan federal court civil trial that is in its second week.

Palin testified Monday that death threats against her increased and her spirits drooped after an editorial about gun violence said her political action committee had contributed to political rhetoric that enabled an atmosphere of violence…

Kenneth Turkel, an attorney for Palin, urged the jury to find the Times liable for defamation on the grounds that its former editorial page editor, James Bennet, either knew what he was publishing was wrong or acted with “reckless…

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