Sarah Palin Scores New Trial in N.Y. Times Defamation Case (1)

Sarah Palin’s defamation lawsuit against the New York Times over an editorial linking Palin to the shooting of Gabrielle Giffords was revived on Wednesday.

Several “major issues” during Palin’s unsuccessful 2022 federal trial in Manhattan “impugn the reliability of that verdict,” the Second Circuit said.

While the jury was deliberating, US District Court Judge Jed S. Rakoff tossed the case, saying that “as a matter of law,” the news outlet wasn’t liable.

That ruling “improperly intruded on the province of the jury by making credibility determinations,” Judge John M. Walker Jr., of the US Court of Appeals for the ...