A Manhattan federal jury ruled against former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin on Tuesday in her lawsuit accusing The New York Times of defamation.
The panel’s unanimous decision came a day after the judge presiding over the case, U.S. District Judge Jed Rakoff for the Southern District of New York, took the unusual step of announcing that he would be dismissing Palin’s case regardless of the jury’s verdict.
Palin was the governor of Alaska when she rocketed to fame in 2008 after Sen. John McCain of Arizona, the GOP presidential nominee, picked her as his running mate. She claims her reputation was damaged by a Times editorial that incorrectly linked her to a 2011 mass shooting in Arizona that nearly killed then-U.S. Rep. Gabby Giffords, D-Ariz.
The Times quickly published a correction and the editor in charge of that section issued an apology.
Palin’s first defamation lawsuit against the Times, which was filed shortly after the editorial was published in 2017, was also dismissed.
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