On Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Jed Rakoff denied the former Alaska governor's request for a new trial.
NEW YORK — The judge who presided over Sarah Palin’s libel case against The New York Times denied her request Tuesday for a new trial, saying she failed to introduce “even a speck” of evidence necessary to prove actual malice by the newspaper.
“In actuality, none of these was erroneous, let alone a basis for granting Palin a new trial,” the judge said. “And the striking thing about the trial here was that Palin, for all her earlier assertions, could not in the end introduce even a speck of such evidence,” he said.Lawyers for The New York Times did not immediately respond to comment requests.
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