Jury finds NY Times not liable in Sarah Palin defamation case
Media Industry,Politics,Sarah Palin,Republican Party,New York Times
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A federal jury in Manhattan on Tuesday found the New York Times (NYT.N), opens new tab not liable for allegedly defaming Sarah Palin in a 2017 editorial about gun control, dealing the former Republican U.S. vice presidential candidate a second loss at trial.
The verdict came in a retrial of Palin's case, after a federal appeals court threw out a 2022 verdict in the Times' favor.
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