Judge sets new trial date in Sarah Palin's libel lawsuit against The New York Times

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Source: ABC News

November 12, 2024, 12:08 PM


A federal judge in New York on Tuesday set a trial date for April 14 in the libel lawsuit that Sarah Palin, the former Alaska governor and Republican vice presidential nominee, brought against The New York Times.

The trial date was decided over the objections of both the plaintiff and defense, who asked for a date in July to give the two sides time to possibly reach a settlement out of court. "This case should not require very much preparation since it's a retrial," Judge Jed Rakoff said during a conference Tuesday.

A lawyer for the newspaper, David Axelrod, raised the possibility the two sides could settle and asked for more time. The judge did not agree to push the case into the summer. Ken Turkel, a lawyer for Palin, agreed the idea would be to try and mediate. "We just wanted to take some of the pressure off," Turkel said.

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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