“The case is, in many respects, an old-school media libel action resurrected into a newly complicated defamation landscape,” University of Utah law professor RonNell Andersen Jones told the New York Times. open image in gallery Sarah Palin is getting another shot at the New York Times in a defamation lawsuit. The Times’ attorneys argued that the error was an honest mistake, and Rakoff initially dismissed the lawsuit before it reached trial. After the appeal court’s decision, the legal teams for the Times and Palin held talks about settling the case. At the same time, though, the case is taking place in New York after the state passed a lawstrengthening and expanding press freedoms.
