Judge Rejects Sarah Palin’s Second Effort In Defamation Case Against ‘N.Y. Times’
A judge rejected former vice presidential candidate and Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin‘s (R) attempt on Tuesday to resurrect a libel case against the New York Times. “In a defamation case brought by a public figure like Sarah Palin, a mistake is not enough to win if it was not motivated by actual malice,” U.S. District Judge Jed Rakoff wrote in his opinion. “And the striking thing about the trial here was that Palin, for all her earlier assertions, could not, in the end, introduce even a speck of such evidence.” Palin sued the paper and former editorial page editor James Bennett for publishing an art...