Lawyers defending the New York Times say Sarah Palin is overreaching in her defamation lawsuit against the paper, and argue the case should be thrown out.
Court papers filed by lawyers for the Times say Palin’s legal team is attempting to subpeona “twenty-three non-party current and former Times reporters, editors and other employees — most of whom had nothing to do with the editorial at issue,” according to a Wednesday report by the New York Post.
Times’ lawyers also said Palin’s team is seeking “every internal communication it has had about her since 2011.”
The lawsuit filed by Palin relates to an editorial the paper published in June that asserted there was a direct link between one of her political groups and the 2011 shooting of Democratic Rep. Gabrielle Giffords. There was no such link ever proven and the Times corrected its editorial after publication.
