Professor Benjamin Zipursky was quoted in articles by The Guardian and Reuters that discussed Sarah Palin’s defamation lawsuit against The New York Times.
Sarah Palin, the former Alaska governor and 2008 Republican vice presidential nominee, has spent 4-1/2 years battling the New York Times over an editorial she said falsely linked her to a deadly Arizona mass shooting that left a U.S. congresswoman seriously wounded.
On Monday, Palin is poised to try to begin convincing jurors in a lawsuit in Manhattan federal court that the newspaper and its former editorial page editor James Bennet defamed her.
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The Times quickly corrected the editorial to disclaim any connection between political rhetoric and the Arizona shooting, and Bennet has said he did not intend to blame Palin.
Bennet’s “immediate sort of emergency mode or panic mode” upon learning what happened strongly suggests he had been unaware of any mistake, said Benjamin Zipursky, a Fordham University law professor.
“Negligence or carelessness – even gross negligence – is clearly not good enough for Palin to win,” Zipursky said.
Read the full Reuters article. Read the full article in The Guardian.
