A judge says he will dismiss Sarah Palin’s defamation lawsuit against the New York Times, ruling Palin’s team did not prove a key element of its case.
Rakoff's ruling came while the jury is deliberating over a verdict -- and Rakoff said he will allow the jury to continue deliberating and to reach a verdict, and will dismiss the case once it has done so.Rakoff presented his findings in court on Monday with an eye toward an inevitable appeals process.The judge in the closely-watched trial said Palin did not prove"actual malice," which is the standard her legal team had to meet in her defamation case.
Rakoff said earlier on Monday that no matter the jury's decision,"this is the kind of case that will inevitably go up on appeal."The jury of nine, five women and four men, have been deliberating for nearly nine hours. They started deliberating around 4p.m. on Friday after sitting through seven days of trial.
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