JonathanTurley

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

Here is the column: For those of us who teach torts, we are living in the golden age of defamation. Most recently, after numerous efforts to dismiss the case, The New York Times found itself in court defending an editorial that bizarrely appeared to blame former Alaska Gov. Devin Nunes, R-Calif. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz.

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JonathanTurley

FEBRUARY 19, 2022

The court’s curious handling of the case backfired. That issue would have to be decided by the Supreme Court however given the prior ruling in New York Times v. Rakoff came up with a curious legal version of a palindrome in the defamation trial of former Alaska governor and vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin v.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 2, 2022

District Judge Jed Rakoff has issued a stinging rebuke to former Alaska Gov. In its earlier ruling against the Times, the court put the theory of the case succinctly in its leading line: “Gov. They were deliberating that very question and now had the view of the court that the “actual malice” standard was not satisfied in the case.

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