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Bill Kovarik, Professor of Communication, Radford University

Appeal in Sarah Palin's libel loss could set up Supreme Court test of decades-old media freedom rule

Sarah Palin speaks to the media. Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images

To the numerous challenges facing the U.S. media in recent years, add a libel case against The New York Times – lost by Sarah Palin, but now seemingly headed to appeal and perhaps on to the highest court in the land.

On Feb. 15, 2022, a jury rejected Palin’s claim. As it happened, its verdict was more or less moot. The presiding judge had already said he would dismiss the case on the grounds that the former Alaska governor’s legal team had failed to reach the bar for proving she had been defamed.

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