Sarah Balin, New York Times for her confrontation with the retrial of defamation

Sarah Palin and New York Times returned to the courtroom, where the former Alaska governor and deputy presidential candidate will try to persuade the second jury that the newspaper would distort it in an editorial article on control of weapons.

The re -trial is scheduled to start in a Balin suit, almost on Monday, at the Manhattan Federal Court.

Palin, 61, who was defeated in an attempt for 2008 in the second highest office in the country, lost her first trial against the Times, and found the editor of the previous page James Bennett in 2022. But last August, the second American Court of Appeal in Manhattan found the ruling that was linked by many rulings issued by the reluctant judge, and a decline.

Palin’s lawyers did not immediately respond to the requests for commenting on this article.

A spokesman for the Times Charlie Stadander said that Palin’s suit is related to a “passing reference to an event in an editorial” it was not about.

“This signal was an unintended mistake, and quickly correct,” he said. “We are confident that we will black out.”

The trial comes at a time when American opinion polls appear increasingly in the main media, as more people get their news from social media and their outlets that are compatible with their views.

Ronil Andersen Jones, a law professor at the University of Utah and the first amendment expert, said today’s jury may be more prepared to “frustrate them from the failure of the broader media scene on the individual media defender who was dirty.”

The Palin jury will be extracted from parts of the suburbs of New York City and the northern suburbs that often vote for a large democratic, although Republican Donald Trump was better in the November elections in 2020.

“Tense about facing jury”

Since the first Paneen trial, many media have faced, sometimes settling prominent defamation issues.

In January, for example, CNN settled with a private security contractor after jury gave him $ 5 million to defamation.

The contractor had claimed that CNN accused him of falsely on the air of exploiting Afghans, after the US military withdrew 2021 from Afghanistan.

A month ago, ABC agreed to pay $ 15 million to settle Trump due to an affirmation of the air that the jury found that he was a civilian official for rape-instead of attack-writer E. Jean Carroll.

“The surrender in the ABC case and other litigation related to Trump indicates that the deep defendants are concerned about facing jury anywhere,” said David Logan, Dean of Al -Khuhri of the Roger Williams University Law Faculty.

Palin looked at her case as a tool to cancel the New York Times against Sullivan, the higher landmarks of the Supreme Court in 1964, which require public figures who claim to be defamed to prove that the media has intentionally published false information or ignored the truth in a reckless manner.

However, the second circle said that Palin gave up the argument by waiting for a long time to challenge the “actual malice” standard for Sullivan.

“America’s deadly policy”

The lawsuit arose from an editorial on June 14, 2017, “American killer policy”, which wrongly suggested that Palin may have incited mass shooting in January 2011 in a car park in Arizona.

Six people died in the shooting, and the members of Congress Gabriel Jeffords were seriously injured.

Bennett added – he said under the pressure of the deadline – determining the “clear” link between the shooting and a map of the Political Action Committee in Balin, which placed Jeffords and other Democrats under the intersection.

While the Times corrected the opening and quickly apologized, Palin said that the reputation and mental pain that suffered from it justified the compensatory and punitive damage.

“The heart of this situation is the amount of freedom that the media must make a mistake, correct it, and move forward.”

In the case of Balin’s revival, the second circle said that the American boycott judge, Gaid Rakov, has made a mistake in the evidence that she had shown Bennett that she had not incited fire.

He also made a mistake in formulating evidence about Bennett’s relationship with his brother Michael Bennett, the Democratic Senator from Colorado, Palin said he could prove bias.

It is expected that the trial will continue at least five days before Rakov. It is scheduled again Balnin to testify.

The case is Palin V. New York Times Et Al, American Provincial Court, Southern Province in New York, No. 17-04853.

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