Palin had claimed the newspaper maliciously damaged her reputation by erroneously linking her campaign rhetoric to a mass shooting.
Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin lost her libel lawsuit against The New York Times on Tuesday when a jury rejected her claim that the newspaper maliciously damaged her reputation by erroneously linking her campaign rhetoric to a mass shooting.that if the jury sided with Palin, he would set aside its verdict on the grounds that she hadn't proven the paper acted maliciously, something required in libel suits involving public figures.
In a statement, the Times called the verdict a"reaffirmation of a fundamental tenet of American law: public figures should not be permitted to use libel suits to punish or intimidate news organizations that make, acknowledge and swiftly correct unintentional errors." In the editorial, the Times blamed overheated political rhetoric. It likened the shooting to a 2011 massacre in Arizona that left six dead and former U.S. Representative Gabby Giffords severely wounded, and said Palin's political action committee had contributed to an atmosphere of violence at the time by circulating a map of electoral districts that put Giffords and 19 other Democrats under stylized crosshairs.
"It was devastating to read a false accusation that I had anything to do with murder," Palin said."I felt powerless — that I was up against Goliath. ... I was David." The First Amendment protects journalists"who make an honest mistake when they write about a person like Sarah Palin … That's all this was about — an honest mistake," Axelrod said.
"This is the kind of case that inevitably goes up on appeal," Rakoff said in an explanation from the bench."I've regretted it pretty much every day since," he said.
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