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Judge dismisses Palin defamation case against New York Times
The Hill ^ | 08/29/2017 | Jacqueline Thomsen

Posted on 08/29/2017 12:12:47 PM PDT by GIdget2004

A federal judge dismissed Sarah Palin’s defamation lawsuit against The New York Times on Tuesday, according to multiple media reports.

Palin sued The Times for defamation after an editorial in the newspaper on mass shootings tied an ad run by the former vice presidential nominee to the 2011 shooting of former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (R-Az.).

(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: defamation; fishwrap; getpalin; lawsuit; libel; lies; media; msm; newyork; newyorktimes; nyt; palin; palinlawsuit; sarahpalin; smearcampaign; therealwaronwomen; waronsarah
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To: colorado tanker

Once they define you as a “celebrity” it is very hard to win.

Carol Burnett and Maureen O’Hara are the only famous people I can think of who won defamation suits against the media.


21 posted on 08/29/2017 12:32:45 PM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Bernard Marx

This was always going to be a hard mountain for Palin to climb. That said, I suspect that the fix was in to save the Times from Discovery.


22 posted on 08/29/2017 12:34:01 PM PDT by section9
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To: Jeff Chandler

Oh, jeez! What are his ties with John Podesta?


23 posted on 08/29/2017 12:34:52 PM PDT by TigersEye (0bama. The Legacy is a lie. The lie is the Legacy.)
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To: Bernard Marx

The Times report was despicable, repeating a libel exposed as false years ago.


24 posted on 08/29/2017 12:36:24 PM PDT by colorado tanker
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To: Puppage

It gives his name, Jed Rakoff, and also says he was appointed by Clinton in 1996.


25 posted on 08/29/2017 12:42:20 PM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: GIdget2004; flaglady47; Maine Mariner; pax_et_bonum
Win or lose, I think Sarah got her point about media corruption through to the American public.

She has my appreciation and my thanks for pushing back.

Leni

26 posted on 08/29/2017 12:42:27 PM PDT by MinuteGal
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To: VaeVictis
Let me guess, the public wasn’t interested enough in the case? Was there no prosecutor willing to take the case?

It was a civil case and not a criminal case so there was no prosecutor. And the judges reason for tossing the case was basically absence of malice: "But if political journalism is to achieve its constitutionally endorsed role of challenging the powerful, legal redress by a public figure must be limited to those cases where the public figure has a plausible factual basis for complaining that the mistake was made maliciously, that is, with knowledge it was false or with reckless disregard of its falsity. Here, plaintiff's complaint, even when supplemented by facts developed at an evidentiary hearing convened by the Court, fails to make that showing."

27 posted on 08/29/2017 12:45:08 PM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: DoodleDawg
It gives his name, Jed Rakoff, and also says he was appointed by Clinton in 1996.

The article is much longer than when I first opened it. Thanks for the info.

28 posted on 08/29/2017 12:46:16 PM PDT by Puppage (You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to say it.)
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To: DoodleDawg

You took my post seriously I see. It was more of a critique on the recent ludicrous rulings.... One on Hillary’s information not being released. The other on Hillary not being tried because Comey “knew” no prosecutor would do it.


29 posted on 08/29/2017 12:53:51 PM PDT by VaeVictis (~Woe to the Conquered~)
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To: GIdget2004

Fomr the Wikipedia article on this idiot judge, who was appointed by Bill Clinton:

“Rolling Stone magazine Matt Taibbi wrote in 2011, “Federal judge Jed Rakoff, a former prosecutor with the U.S. Attorney’s office here in New York, is fast becoming a sort of legal hero of our time.”[19]”


30 posted on 08/29/2017 12:54:20 PM PDT by ZULU (DITCH MITCH!!! DUMP RYAN!! DROP DEAD MCCAIN!! KIM FATTY the THIRD = Kim Jung Un)
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To: Jeff Chandler

Obviously he is very wise and very important - you can tell from his expression.

A Judge is just a slip and fall attorney with political connections.

And this idiot’s connections are with the Democrats.


31 posted on 08/29/2017 12:55:41 PM PDT by ZULU (DITCH MITCH!!! DUMP RYAN!! DROP DEAD MCCAIN!! KIM FATTY the THIRD = Kim Jung Un)
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To: Puppage

This will be reversed on appeal.


32 posted on 08/29/2017 12:55:58 PM PDT by Captain Jack Aubrey (There's not a moment to lose.)
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To: lee martell

She was using Hogan’s Gawker team for this suit.

I hope she appeals and wins.


33 posted on 08/29/2017 12:57:39 PM PDT by Rubble Rouser (The Flint Hills of KS....an amazing place!!)
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To: GIdget2004

Judge Jed Rakoff


34 posted on 08/29/2017 12:58:47 PM PDT by Ray76 (Republicans are a Democrat party front group.)
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To: GIdget2004
Not unexpected, given the location of the court.

However, the Times' defense (in effect, "we're not liable because we're too stupid and lazy to check through our our own files") is nonsensical.

Hopefully she'll appeal. Eventually to the Supreme Court if necessary.

35 posted on 08/29/2017 12:59:40 PM PDT by Sooth2222 ("Gun buybacks are one of the most ineffectual public policies that have ever been invented")
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To: Roccus

Not only the justice system - the whole thing is falling apart.


36 posted on 08/29/2017 1:04:09 PM PDT by aquila48
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To: Ray76

“Judge Jed Rakoff”

Rhymes with Jack—f.


37 posted on 08/29/2017 1:05:07 PM PDT by beelzepug (H,MN! WIAM? DMS!)
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To: TTFlyer

Gay lips, lol.


38 posted on 08/29/2017 1:14:26 PM PDT by miss marmelstein
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To: colorado tanker

I agree. But what was it about my post you didn’t understand? With laws the way they’re written and interpreted and with judge-shopping part of our “legal” system, her chances of success were negligible from the beginning. IMO she met all the legal requirements for a defamation suit but liberal judges apparently don’t care about the law when conservatives are the damaged party.


39 posted on 08/29/2017 1:15:00 PM PDT by Bernard Marx
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To: Jeff Chandler

Affected, effete little ethnic urbanite, who can’t quite decide if he’s trying to fake WASP or trying to fake Ernest Hemingway, but you can bet he’s insufferably arrogant in his attempts to pull it off while out in the Hamptons. Ahoy, Polloi!


40 posted on 08/29/2017 1:24:39 PM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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