A federal judge in New York on Tuesday is set to decide when to hold a new trial in a libel lawsuit that Sarah Palin, the former Alaska governor and Republican vice presidential nominee, brought against The New York Times.
The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled this summer that Palin can again try to hold the paper liable for a 2017 editorial that wrongly suggested she incited the 2011 mass shooting that killed six people and wounded then-Democratic congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords.
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The appeals court decided the trial judge made errors that “impugn the reliability” of the jury’s verdict, siding with The Times and returning the case for a new trial.
Judge Jed Rakoff, in a brief order last week, said the new trial “under no circumstances will be later than February 2025, and, if the parties prefer, can be as early as mid-December 2024.”