Jury selected for retrial of Sarah Palin's New York Times defamation suit

By Luc Cohen

NEW YORK (Reuters) -A assemblage was selected connected Monday for the retrial successful Sarah Palin's suit against the New York Times for allegedly defaming the erstwhile Alaska politician and Republican vice statesmanlike campaigner successful a 2017 editorial astir weapon control.

Palin, 61, who was unsuccessful successful her 2008 bid for the second-highest U.S. bureau alongside moving mate John McCain, mislaid her archetypal proceedings against the Times and erstwhile editorial leafage exertion James Bennet successful 2022.

But the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals successful Manhattan past August decided that the verdict was tainted by respective rulings by the presiding judge, and ordered a retrial.

Opening statements are owed to statesman connected Tuesday astatine 9:30 a.m. EDT (1330 GMT) earlier U.S. District Judge Jed Rakoff successful Manhattan.

The nine-person assemblage selected by Rakoff and lawyers for some sides includes 5 women and 4 men.

Palin sued the paper aft it published an editorial connected June 14, 2017, bearing the header "America's Lethal Politics" that wrongly suggested she whitethorn person incited a January 2011 wide shooting successful an Arizona parking batch successful which six radical were killed and U.S. Representative Gabby Giffords was gravely wounded. The Times rapidly corrected the editorial and apologized.

Times spokesperson Charlie Stadtlander has said Palin's suit acrophobic "a passing notation to an lawsuit successful an editorial" that was not astir her.

(Reporting by Luc Cohen successful New York;Editing by Noeleen Walder)