'Several' Jurors Who Rejected Palin's Defamation Suit Against the NYT knew judge dismissed

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'Several' Jurors Who Rejected Sarah Palin's Defamation Suit Against the New York Times Received Push Alerts Telling Them the Judge Dismissed It https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/several-jurors-who-rejected-sarah-palins-defamation-suit-against-the-new-york-times-received-push-alerts-telling-them-the-judge-dismissed-it/… via @lawcrimenews

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'Several' Jurors Who Rejected Sarah Palin's Defamation Suit Against the New York Times Received...
A judge said "several" jurors heard about his ruling dismissing Sarah Palin's lawsuit against the Times via push alerts before they rejected it, too.
11:26 AM · Feb 16, 2022

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Several of the federal jurors who rejected Sarah Palin’s defamation lawsuit against the New York Times received “push notifications” on their phones informing them that the judge had dismissed the case a day earlier, according to a new court document.

Senior U.S. District Judge Jed Rakoff wrote that the jurors told his clerk that his ruling did not factor into their deliberations.

“Late yesterday, in the course of such an inquiry in this case — in which the jury confirmed that they had fully understood the instructions and had no suggestions regarding jury instructions for future cases — several jurors volunteered to the law clerk that, prior to the rendering of the jury verdict in this case, they had learned of the fact of this Court’s Rule 50 determination on Monday to dismiss the case on legal grounds,” Rakoff wrote in a two-page order on Wednesday.

Legal experts questioned the timing of Rakoff’s ruling on Tuesday, which found that no reasonable jury could have found actual malice in the Times’s 2017 editorial falsely linking Palin to Jared Lee Loughner’s mass shooting.

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The judge was stupid. He could have waited until the jury finished deliberations or just granted a directed verdict before the jury even had to deliberate.