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Post by Admin on Sept 10, 2019 4:34:48 GMT
Sarah Palin’s husband has filed for divorce, the Anchorage Daily News reports. On Friday, Todd Palin filed for divorce from the former vice presidential candidate in Anchorage Superior Court and cited an “incompatibility of temperament between the parties such that they find it impossible to live together as husband and wife” as the reason for the couple’s split after 31 years. The divorce filing reportedly also asks for joint legal custody of Trig Palin, their only minor son. Todd Palin’s attorney in the divorce, Kimberlee Colbo, asked the court to designate the divorce as confidential as it proceeds. Sarah Palin shot to fame after being selected as John McCain’s running mate during his 2008 presidential run, and was elected the governor of Alaska in 2006. She resigned as governor in 2009, but has remained in the public eye through books, speaking engagements, and being featured in a one-season reality show.
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Post by Admin on Sept 24, 2019 18:01:52 GMT
Sarah Palin has head to court to file her official response to estranged husband Todd’s divorce. According to court documents obtained by The Blast, Sarah filed her answer to the divorce petition on September 20. Sarah then filed a counterclaim against Todd Palin, meaning she does not agree with him on all issues in the divorce. The entire court record has been sealed by Sarah and Todd, who jointly agreed to keep the case from the public.
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Post by Admin on Jan 23, 2022 19:55:39 GMT
Sarah Palin, the former Alaska governor and 2008 Republican vice presidential nominee, has spent 4-1/2 years battling the New York Times over an editorial she said falsely linked her to a deadly Arizona mass shooting that left a U.S. congresswoman seriously wounded. On Monday, Palin is poised to try to begin convincing jurors in a lawsuit in Manhattan federal court that the newspaper and its former editorial page editor James Bennet defamed her. The trial before U.S. District Judge Jed Rakoff marks a rare instance of a major media company defending its editorial practices before an American jury. Opening statements could take place as soon as Monday, following jury selection. Palin bears the high burden www.reuters.com/article/uk-new-york-times-palin-idUKKBN25O31B of showing by clear and convincing evidence that there was "actual malice" involved in the newspaper's editorial writing process. "This is a lawsuit over an editorial, essentially an opinion. This is a potentially dangerous area," said Roy Gutterman, a Syracuse University law and communications professor. "If we give public officials a green light to litigate on editorials they disagree with, where's the end?" Palin, 57, has accused the Times of defaming her in a June 14, 2017, editorial linking her political action committee (PAC) to the 2011 mass shooting in an Arizona parking lot that left six people dead and then-U.S. Representative Gabby Giffords wounded. Palin is seeking unspecified damages, but according to court papers has estimated $421,000 in damage to her reputation. The editorial said "the link to political incitement was clear" in the 2011 shooting, and that the incident came after Palin's PAC circulated a map putting 20 Democrats including Giffords under "stylized cross hairs." It was published after a shooting in Alexandria, Virginia in which U.S. Representative Steve Scalise, a member of the House of Representatives Republican leadership, was wounded.
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Post by Admin on Jan 24, 2022 18:12:20 GMT
Palin libel lawsuit against NY Times going to trial | Wake Up America 6,076 views • Jan 25, 2022 • Fmr. Acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker reacted to fmr. Alaska Governor Sarah Palin's libel case against The New York Times going to trial, on Monday's "Wake Up America."
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Post by Admin on Jan 24, 2022 19:35:19 GMT
Unvaccinated former Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin tested positive for Covid, a federal judge told a courtroom before he postponed the scheduled start Monday of a defamation trial involving the one-time Alaska governor and The New York Times that was set to begin. Palin’s civil suit against the Times now will be heard by a jury in Manhattan federal court on Feb. 3 as a result of her Covid-19 status. She disclosed in March that she had been diagnosed then with the coronavirus. Last month, Palin said that she will get a Covid-19 vaccine “over my dead body.” Judge Jed Rakoff announced in court Monday that he learned Sunday evening that the 57-year-old Palin was again positive for the virus. “She is of course unvaccinated,” Rakoff said. After a second test confirmed Palin was positive for Covid, Rakoff postponed the trial start date to February. The mother of five sued the Times and its former editorial page editor for allegedly damaging her reputation with a 2017 editorial that suggested an image produced by Palin’s political action committee incited the 2011 shooting of Rep. Gabby Giffords of Arizona. Palin was not well known to the American public when GOP presidential nominee Sen. John McCain picked her to be his running mate in 2008. The McCain-Palin ticket lost to President Barack Obama and his running mate, Joe Biden, who is now president.
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