Judge denies GOP Sarah Palin's bid for new libel suit against NYT

A judge has denied former vice-presidential nominee and Alaskan governor Sarah Palin's bid for a new trial in her defamation case against the New York Times, according to a written decision filed Tuesday in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York.

Palin sued the Times and its former editorial page editor James Bennet in 2017 after they published an editorial that erroneously linked a map that Palin's political action committee had posted to a shooting in 2011 that killed six and injured 13 others, including former Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, CNN has reported. A jury found in February that Palin had not proven her case.

"Because Palin's instant motion is wholly lacking in merit, the Court denies it in full," said the opinion and order from Judge Jed Rakoff.
"Whatever she may have claimed in her complaint and pre-trial submissions, Palin was unable to deliver at trial admissible evidence that remotely supported her claim that she was intentionally or recklessly defamed by the defendants," the judge wrote in his opinion.

https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/01/media/sarah-palin-new-york-times/index.html