| In Sarah Palin Second Defamation
Trial NYT Found Not Liable by SDNY Jury
by
Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book
Substack
SDNY
COURTHOUSE,
April 22 – The Friday before
the second round of Sarah
Palin versus New York Times, a
final pre-trial conference was
held by U.S. District Court
for the Southern District of
New York Judge Jed S. Rakoff.
Inner City Press, which
covered the first trial, live
tweeted it, thread.
On April 15,
Inner City Press live tweeted
each side's opening argument,
and then the first two
witnesses: Elizabeth
Williamson who drafted the
editorial - focusing her
research on rhetoric and not
causation of the 2011
shooting, she said - and
Phoebe Lett who fact-checked
it, thread.
On April 16, onto
the stand went NYT's Cohn,
Lepping then Bennet, ending in
jokes with Judge Rakoff about
Bennet sharing the same barber
as Palin's lawyer Vogt. Thread.
On April 17 James
Bennet was on the stand, thread
On April 21 Palin
took to the stand, recounting
Kathy Griffin at her door in
Wasilla and how the NYT's
correction did not even name
her. The NYT's lawyer hammered
on her paid speeches and
objection to - and got
excluded - some of her tweets.
On April 22, not
liable:
All rise! Judge
Rakoff: We have a verdict.
File it as Court Exhibit 1.
Jury entering!
Judge Rakoff: I
will not comment on the
verdict - but on what a good
jury you have been. I
will open the verdict
envelope...
Foreperson:
Defendants not liable
Courtroom extra
on X for Subscribers here
and on Substack here
The case is Palin
v. The New York Times Company,
1:17-cv-4853 (Rakoff)
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