A federal judge said Monday he planned to dismiss Sarah Palin’s defamation lawsuit against The New York Times, saying that her legal team had failed to prove that the newspaper acted with actual malice when it published a 2017 editorial erroneously linking her to a mass shooting.
The unexpected decision by the judge, Jed S. Rakoff, came during the second day of jury deliberations in the case. He said he would allow the jury to continue working and that if they ruled in favor of Ms. Palin he would dismiss the case.
