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“In passing the law, Governor Newsom and the Democrats in the California legislature who voted for it made clear that they were retaliating against President Trump for his political associations and speech,” Bryan Weir, an associate at the Arlington, Virginia, litigation boutique Consovoy McCarthy, wrote in the 15-page complaint filed in the U.S. District Court for California’s Eastern District in Sacramento. https://trib.al/2wOkbMZ

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Trump's lawyers at Consovoy McCarthy contend a new California law requiring presidential candidates to disclose their tax returns is unlawful.

A unanimous three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit reversed U.S. Judge Jed Rakoff’s decision in 2017 to dismiss Palin’s suit over a Times editorial linking rhetoric used by her PAC–which included the use of crosshairs to target congressional districts to flip from Democratic to Republican–to the act of gun violence. Rakoff had reasoned that there was no showing of actual malice on the part of the Times.

Now, a Second Circuit panel has ruled that Palin should have a chance to prove the actual malice element.

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The court reversed the dismissal of a suit over a now-corrected editorial that said her political action committee's was partly to blame in a 2011 mass shooting that left former Arizona Congresswoman Gabby Giffords seriously injured.
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