A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit unanimously upheld the $5 million jury verdict finding Donald Trump liable for sexually abusing and defaming E. Jean Carroll, rejecting all of Trump’s arguments that trial errors warranted overturning the May 2023 verdict …
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A federal jury in Manhattan awarded E. Jean Carroll $83.3 million in damages against Donald Trump for defamatory statements he made as president in June 2019 denying her sexual assault allegation and attacking her character. The nine-person jury deliberated for less than three hours before returning …
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A nine-person federal jury in Manhattan found Donald Trump liable for sexually abusing and defaming E. Jean Carroll, awarding her $5 million in damages after deliberating for less than three hours in a civil trial presided over by U.S. District Judge Lewis A. Kaplan. The verdict, reached on May 9, …
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New York’s Adult Survivors Act (ASA), signed into law by Governor Kathy Hochul in May 2022, opened a one-year window beginning November 24, 2022, allowing victims of sexual assault to file civil lawsuits regardless of when the abuse occurred, effectively suspending statutes of limitations that …
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E. Jean Carroll, a longtime advice columnist and author, published an excerpt from her forthcoming book in New York Magazine alleging that Donald Trump sexually assaulted her in a Bergdorf Goodman department store dressing room in either late 1995 or early 1996. Carroll, who wrote the “Ask E. …
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