World

E. Jean Carroll can pursue $10 million lawsuit against Donald Trump–judge

2023.06.13 16:33


© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: E. Jean Carroll reacts as she exits the Manhattan Federal Court following the verdict in the civil rape accusation case against former U.S. President Donald Trump, in New York City, U.S., May 9, 2023. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid/File Photo

By Jonathan Stempel

NEW YORK (Reuters) -A judge on Tuesday said E. Jean Carroll, the New York writer who won a $5 million jury verdict against Donald Trump last month, can pursue a separate $10 million defamation lawsuit against the former U.S. president.

U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan in Manhattan ruled in favor of the former Elle magazine columnist, after Trump had argued that the defamation case must be dismissed because jurors had concluded he never raped her.

A spokeswoman for Trump did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Trump’s lawyer Alina Habba was in Miami, where Trump pleaded not guilty in a separate case to federal criminal charges that he mishandled classified files.

On May 9, a Manhattan jury ordered Trump to pay Carroll $2 million for battery and $3 million for defamation, after Carroll accused him of raping her in a department store dressing room in the mid-1990s, and Trump in October 2022 denied that accusation.

The battery claim came under a New York law, the Adult Survivors Act, giving adults a one-year window to sue over sexual abuse that occurred long ago even if statutes of limitations have expired.

Carroll then sought to amend her separate defamation lawsuit filed in 2019 over a similar denial by Trump that June, where he told a White House reporter that the rape never happened and that Carroll was not his “type.”

The revision sought to incorporate the jury verdict, as well as insults Trump lobbed a day later in a CNN town hall, where he called Carroll’s account “fake” and labeled her a “whack job.”

Source link

Related Articles

Back to top button
bitcoin
Bitcoin (BTC) $ 98,400.36 0.38%
ethereum
Ethereum (ETH) $ 3,416.47 2.00%
tether
Tether (USDT) $ 1.00 0.02%
solana
Solana (SOL) $ 255.41 1.65%
bnb
BNB (BNB) $ 664.39 2.24%
xrp
XRP (XRP) $ 1.45 6.22%
dogecoin
Dogecoin (DOGE) $ 0.435032 5.31%
usd-coin
USDC (USDC) $ 1.00 0.09%
cardano
Cardano (ADA) $ 1.06 2.48%
staked-ether
Lido Staked Ether (STETH) $ 3,413.44 2.00%
tron
TRON (TRX) $ 0.21556 3.19%
avalanche-2
Avalanche (AVAX) $ 42.34 3.18%
stellar
Stellar (XLM) $ 0.564993 29.39%
the-open-network
Toncoin (TON) $ 6.53 17.12%
shiba-inu
Shiba Inu (SHIB) $ 0.000027 0.59%
wrapped-steth
Wrapped stETH (WSTETH) $ 4,046.97 2.02%
wrapped-bitcoin
Wrapped Bitcoin (WBTC) $ 98,069.28 0.51%
polkadot
Polkadot (DOT) $ 9.02 19.86%
chainlink
Chainlink (LINK) $ 17.68 4.65%
bitcoin-cash
Bitcoin Cash (BCH) $ 512.01 4.88%
weth
WETH (WETH) $ 3,414.72 1.89%
sui
Sui (SUI) $ 3.46 2.89%
pepe
Pepe (PEPE) $ 0.000021 2.90%
near
NEAR Protocol (NEAR) $ 6.75 7.78%
leo-token
LEO Token (LEO) $ 8.66 1.22%
litecoin
Litecoin (LTC) $ 101.00 2.41%
aptos
Aptos (APT) $ 12.93 1.95%
uniswap
Uniswap (UNI) $ 11.11 7.82%
wrapped-eeth
Wrapped eETH (WEETH) $ 3,598.39 1.98%
hedera-hashgraph
Hedera (HBAR) $ 0.149795 0.21%
internet-computer
Internet Computer (ICP) $ 11.65 6.13%
crypto-com-chain
Cronos (CRO) $ 0.198665 4.44%
usds
USDS (USDS) $ 1.00 0.25%
polygon-ecosystem-token
POL (ex-MATIC) (POL) $ 0.576364 6.61%
ethereum-classic
Ethereum Classic (ETC) $ 29.97 2.01%
render-token
Render (RENDER) $ 8.01 3.18%
bittensor
Bittensor (TAO) $ 539.25 3.94%
fetch-ai
Artificial Superintelligence Alliance (FET) $ 1.51 14.89%
kaspa
Kaspa (KAS) $ 0.153376 1.73%
ethena-usde
Ethena USDe (USDE) $ 1.00 0.02%
arbitrum
Arbitrum (ARB) $ 0.880453 7.09%
whitebit
WhiteBIT Coin (WBT) $ 24.78 0.58%
bonk
Bonk (BONK) $ 0.000047 5.28%
cosmos
Cosmos Hub (ATOM) $ 9.03 14.86%
vechain
VeChain (VET) $ 0.043682 4.51%
filecoin
Filecoin (FIL) $ 5.84 14.97%
dai
Dai (DAI) $ 1.00 0.12%
mantra-dao
MANTRA (OM) $ 3.76 1.31%
dogwifcoin
dogwifhat (WIF) $ 3.29 2.22%
okb
OKB (OKB) $ 53.86 8.89%