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Reuters / Jonathan Stempel / Aug 29, 2024
“The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said Palin can again try to prove the Times should be liable for a 2017 editorial, ‘America’s Lethal Politics,’ that incorrectly linked her to a 2011 mass shooting that killed six people and seriously wounded Democratic U.S. congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords. Media critics, and Palin herself, have viewed the case as a possible vehicle to overturn New York Times v. Sullivan, the landmark 1964 U.S. Supreme Court decision that set a high bar for public figures to prove defamation.”
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