A Manhattan jury has found that the New York Times is not liable for allegedly defaming ex-Alaska Governor Sarah Palin in an editorial piece it published in 2017.
The verdict marks the second loss for Palin in her quest against the newspaper over the editorial, which she says wrongfully linked her to a mass shooting in Arizona that left six people dead.
Palin lost her first trial in 2022 in a unanimous jury verdict, but an appeals court found the jury was erroneously tainted and threw out the verdict in August.
In response to the retrial victory, the Times issued a statement saying: “The decision reaffirms an important tenet of American law: publishers are not liable for honest mistakes.”
Palin, 61, who was also once a Republican vice-presidential candidate, originally filed her lawsuit in 2017.
