A federal judge issued a scathing 17-page opinion on Friday shutting down former President Donald Trump’s latest efforts to delay trial in writer E. Jean Carroll’s defamation case against him. The ruling from U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan in Manhattan came in response to a request from Trump to delay trial while he appeals an… Continue reading Judge: Trump Bid To Delay E. Jean Carroll Trial ‘Unpersuasive’
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Judge finds Donald Trump’s appeal in E. Jean Carroll case ‘frivolous’
NEW YORK — A U.S. judge on Friday ruled that former President Donald Trump had filed a “frivolous” appeal of his decision not to dismiss the first of writer E. Jean Carroll’s two defamation lawsuits stemming from her claim that he raped her. U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan in Manhattan also denied Trump’s bid to… Continue reading Judge finds Donald Trump’s appeal in E. Jean Carroll case ‘frivolous’
Judge tosses Trump’s counterclaim against E. Jean Carroll, finding rape claim ‘substantially true’
A federal judge in New York on Monday dismissed Donald Trump’s countersuit against E. Jean Carroll, the writer who won a $5 million verdict against the former president for battery and defamation earlier this year. Trump filed his counterclaims against Carroll in June, alleging she defamed him by continuing to say publicly that he’d raped… Continue reading Judge tosses Trump’s counterclaim against E. Jean Carroll, finding rape claim ‘substantially true’
Judge Dismisses Trump’s Defamation Countersuit Against E. Jean Carroll
A federal judge has dismissed Donald Trump’s defamation countersuit against the writer E. Jean Carroll, whom he was found guilty of sexually abusing and defaming by a jury in May. In his ruling on Monday, Judge Lewis Kaplan of the Southern District of New York shot down Trump’s claim that Carroll defamed him when she… Continue reading Judge Dismisses Trump’s Defamation Countersuit Against E. Jean Carroll