Former Republican vice presidential candidate and Alaska governor Sarah Palin will have a second chance to try the New York Times for defamation when the parties meet in a New York courtroom on Monday.
An appeals court revived the case last August, after several twists and turns that saw a district court throw it out.
Breitbart News reported at the time:
As Breitbart News reported in February 2022, U.S. Judge Jed S. Rakoff, a Bill Clinton appointee to the federal bench in the Southern District of New York, dismissed the case even as jurors were still deliberating over the verdict.
Palin sued the Times over a 2017 editorial in which it said that she had inspired the 2011 mass shooting in Tucson, Arizona. Judge Rakoff initially dismissed the case, but it was revived by a
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