LIBEL NEWS: Sarah Palin’s defamation suit against New York Times resurrected by appeals court. “A federal appeals court on Tuesday reversed a judge’s decision dismissing former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin’s defamation lawsuit against the New York Times for a 2017 editorial that suggested an image produced byPalin’s political action committee incited the 2011 shooting of Rep. Gabby Giffords of Arizona. The appellate panel said Judge Jed Rakoff of U.S. District Court in Manhattan in 2017 had relied on facts outside of legal filings in the case to dismiss the suit against The Times by Palin, who was the Republican vice presidential nominee in 2008.”

UPDATE: That CNBC link seems not to be working now. Here’s another story, and here’s a link to the Second Circuit opinion. The Second Circuit tends to be pretty friendly to media defendants in general.