“My job is to apply the law,” U.S. District Court Judge Jed Rakoff said, noting that he anticipates an appeal in the case. “The law sets a very high standard for actual malice and in this case the Court finds that standard has not been met.”
Jurors, however, still have decide whether they believe Bennet and theacted with “actual malice” when they used the disputed wording in the editorial, meaning that the former editor knew what he had written in the piece was false or that he published the piece with “reckless disregard” for the truth. Palin’s lawyers arguededitorial staff actively chose not to fact check the column’s claims and deliberately fed a narrative they knew to be false about the Republican.
“All they had to do was care a little bit. All they had to do was dislike my client a little less,” Turkel said., however, argued that Bennet and the newspaper made an “honest mistake” in erroneously connecting Palin’s PAC to the 2011 shooting. The piece in question was published on June 14, 2017, just hours after Louisiana Rep. Steve Scalise was wounded by a man who opened fire on a congressional baseball practice in Washington.
between Palin’s map and Jared Lee Loughner, the Arizona shooter who had mental illness and a long-running fixation on Giffords; theIt was an “honest mistake that caused James Bennet to stay up all night,” Axelrod stressed to prove that the former editor did not intentionally try to harm Palin in an editorial that was supposed to be about gun policy.
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