A jury found The New York Times not liable Tuesday after former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin claimed she was defamed by a 2017 editorial falsely tying her to a mass shooting.
The nine-person jury deliberated in Manhattan federal court for two hours before finding that the Grey Lady did not libel the onetime Republican vice presidential candidate.
The Times, which corrected the editorial the day after it ran, had argued that Palin did not show that it met the high bar of “actual malice” needed to find media outlets liable for defamation.
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