A federal judge has dismissed former
vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin's defamation case against the
New York Times newspaper.
Mrs. Palin had sued the Times after it published an editorial, which she claimed linked her to the 2011 shooting of 19 people.
The newspaper had previously apologised and corrected the article within a day.
"Negligence this may be; but defamation of a public figure it plainly is not," Judge Jed Rakoff wrote in his
decision.
The editorial in question was published earlier this year, after a gunman opened fire on Republican congressmen during baseball practice Washington DC.
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Source: BBC News (via The Empire Report)
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