Sarah Palin requests new trial after losing New York Times defamation case

A jury rejected the former Alaska governor's claims that a 2017 New York Times editorial defamed her

Former US vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin asked a federal court on Monday for a new trial after losing her defamation case against the New York Times earlier this month, and requested that the judge overseeing the case be disqualified.

Palin's attorneys said last week they would take those steps because several jurors received push notifications on their cellphones before deliberations were over, about US district judge Jed Rakoff's decision to dismiss the case regardless of their verdict.