A number of jurors in Sarah Palin’s libel trial against the New York Times saw news notifications about the judge’s decision to throw out the case while they were still deliberating, according to a new court filing. Manhattan federal court Judge Jed Rakoff wrote in a letter filed in the case Wednesday that several of the panelists had told his courtroom clerk that they had seen mobile-phone push notifications about his decision to dismiss Palin’s complaint. “These jurors reported that although they had been assiduously adhering to the Court’s instruction to avoid media coverage of the trial, they had involuntarily received ‘push notifications’ on their smartphones that contained the bottomline of the ruling,” Rakoff wrote in the letter.
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