December 15, 2025
A New York federal judge on Monday denied Sarah Palin's attempt for another redo of her libel trial against The New York Times, saying her lawyers "seriously misconstrued" a Second Circuit decision as reducing what she had to prove at trial.
July 01, 2025
The New York Times urged a New York federal judge to refuse Sarah Palin's request for a new trial and judge after a jury rejected her defamation claims over a 2017 editorial, saying her arguments misunderstood circuit court rulings in the long-running case and skipped a procedural bar.
May 05, 2025
In this month's review of ongoing defamation fights, Law360 looks back on developments in two voting technology companies' cases against news organizations that claimed they helped rig the 2020 election.
April 22, 2025
A Manhattan federal jury on Tuesday rejected Sarah Palin's libel claims against the New York Times over a 2017 editorial linking her to political violence, finding the paper and its former opinion editor not liable for an error that was promptly corrected.
April 21, 2025
Sarah Palin told a federal jury in Manhattan on Monday that she felt devastated and "defenseless" when an allegedly defamatory 2017 editorial appeared in The New York Times erroneously tying her to political violence, but conceded she didn't demand a correction or retraction.
April 17, 2025
Sarah Palin's lawyers confronted a former New York Times editor Thursday with information showing an assassination attempt against a congresswoman may not have been connected to political rhetoric, breaking new ground in their bid to hold the paper liable for erroneously tying Palin to the violence in a 2017 editorial.
April 15, 2025
Sarah Palin's second libel trial against The New York Times over a 2017 editorial began Tuesday after a Manhattan federal judge declined to tell jurors that the article was defamatory as a matter of law.
April 11, 2025
Manhattan U.S. District Judge Jed S. Rakoff took up legal questions Friday ahead of a retrial for former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin in her suit accusing The New York Times of maliciously defaming her, cheerfully noting that an earlier verdict was erased.
November 12, 2024
Sarah Palin's retrial against The New York Times over defamation claims will start April 14, a New York federal judge ruled Tuesday after calling the parties' requests for a July date "out of the question."
May 31, 2022
U.S. District Judge Jed S. Rakoff on Tuesday shot down Sarah Palin's request that he either be disqualified or grant her a new trial in her failed defamation case against The New York Times, ruling that Palin's arguments that he exhibited bias are "wholly lacking in merit."