New York Times Must Face Sarah Palin’s Defamation Lawsuit (2)

New York Times Co. must face a defamation lawsuit by former Alaska governor Sarah Palin over an editorial that linked her to the shooting of Arizona lawmaker Gabrielle Giffords, a federal appeals court said.

The ruling is a win for the 2008 Republican vice presidential candidate, though the court said the bar remains high for Palin to ultimately prevail in the case. The 2017 editorial linked her to the 2011 shooting in Tucson, Arizona, that seriously wounded Giffords, a Democrat then in the House of Representatives.

The 21-page decision, which reinstated a lawsuit dismissed by a lower-court judge, is largely ...