February 03, 2022
The New York Times on Thursday asked a Manhattan federal jury to reject Sarah Palin's defamation claims over a 2017 editorial she says linked her to a mass shooting, opening a long-awaited trial delayed last week by the unvaccinated former Alaska governor's positive COVID-19 test.
January 24, 2022
Sarah Palin tested positive for COVID-19 on the eve of her defamation trial against The New York Times on Monday, according to U.S. District Judge Jed S. Rakoff, who said the conservative politician was "of course, unvaccinated."
January 11, 2022
A Manhattan federal judge said Tuesday that Sarah Palin's appearance dressed as a pink bear on television's "The Masked Singer" won't come up during jury selection as the former vice presidential nominee's defamation suit against The New York Times heads toward trial.
August 28, 2020
A New York federal judge on Friday rejected a bid by The New York Times to end former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's lawsuit accusing the newspaper of defaming her by running an editorial that she claims falsely linked her to a 2011 mass shooting, sending the dispute to a jury trial set to begin in February.
August 29, 2017
U.S. District Judge Jed S. Rakoff dismissed Sarah Palin's defamation suit against The New York Times on Tuesday over an editorial that she claimed falsely linked her to politically-motivated violence, finding that she couldn't prove the challenged statements were knowingly untrue when they were published to adequately plead actual malice.
August 16, 2017
In an evidentiary hearing Wednesday on a motion to dismiss a libel suit against The New York Times, the paper's editorial page editor told U.S. District Judge Jed S. Rakoff that he did not intend to imply a causal relationship between political violence and Sarah Palin's rhetoric.
July 07, 2017
The New York Times told U.S. District Judge Jed S. Rakoff on Friday that it will move to dismiss Sarah Palin's defamation suit claiming that it acted with malice toward the former Republican vice presidential candidate when in a June editorial, it falsely linked her to political violence.