Palin’s appeal could set up a Supreme Court test of a decades-old media freedom rule

To the numerous challenges facing the U.S. media in recent years, add a libel case against The New York Times — lost by Sarah Palin, but now seemingly headed to appeal and perhaps on to the highest court in the land. On Feb. 15, 2022, a jury rejected Palin’s claim. As it happened, its verdict was more...