Sarah Palin has spent more than 4 years battling The New York Times over a corrected editorial. Now her defamation suit is headed to trial in federal court.
The trial, expected to last five days, marks a rare instance of a major media company defending its editorial practices before an American jury.Palin bears the high burden of showing there was "actual malice" in the newspaper's editorial writing process.
," published after the shooting of Republican House leader Steve Scalise — originally linked Palin's PAC to the earlier shooting of former Rep. Gabby Giffords.adopted the "actual malice" standard in the landmark decisionTwo current justices, conservatives Clarence Thomas and Neil Gorsuch, have suggested revisiting that standard.Go deeper
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