The second Manhattan jury to hear Sarah Palin’s lawsuit against The New York Times returned the same verdict as the first, finding on April 22 that the newspaper was “not liable” for defaming the former Alaska governor.
The jurors were speedy, returning the verdict within hours of starting their deliberations.
“We didn’t prevail in federal court against the New York Times. But please keep fighting for integrity in media. I’ll keep asking the press to quit making things up,” Palin wrote, responding to the decision via social media.
“Keep the faith,” she added.
Palin’s latest loss in federal court comes more than three years after another jury rejected her claims that a June 2017 New York Times editorial damaged her reputation and career as a political commentator by falsely linking her to a mass shooting….