A lawyer for The New York Times told a Manhattan federal civil jury on Thursday that the paper never intended to defame Sarah Palin when a 2017 editorial falsely linked the former Alaska governor’s political action committee to a deadly shooting in Arizona.

The attorney, Ballard Spahr partner David Axelrod, admitted that The Times and its then opinion editor, Michael Bennet, made a “regrettable error,” but had moved quickly to correct the piece, which was published in the immediate aftermath of a Virginia shooting that targeted members of the Republican congressional baseball team.