Instead the jury found Trump" sexually abused" Carroll. Judge Lewis Kaplan said the jury's finding" implicitly determined that he forcibly penetrated her" with his fingers."[ I] n other words, that Mr.... Carroll as that term commonly is used and understood in contexts outside New York Penal Law," Kaplan wrote in granting Carroll's motion to dismiss Trump's counterclaim." The instructions with respect to the rape question thus made clear that if the jury found that Mr.... Carroll's vagina with

Carroll," Judge Lewis Kaplan wrote in Wednesday's ruling.... Trump's 2022 statement, which the jury in Carroll II found to be defamatory, is identical to the substantive content of Mr.... Trump's 2019 statements, the jury's finding in Carroll II is controlling in this case," the judge wrote....

CNN — A federal judge denied Donald Trump’s motion to dismiss E. Jean Carroll’s defamation lawsuit, finding the former president’s legal arguments are “ without merit.” Trump filed a motion for summary judgment to dismiss Carroll’s original defamation lawsuit filed in 2019.... “ There is no basis to risk prolonging the resolution of this litigation further by permitting Mr.... Trump to raise his absolute immunity defense now at the eleventh hour when he could have done so years ago, ” the judg

CNN — A federal judge has dismissed Donald Trump’s counter defamation lawsuit against E. Jean Carroll, dealing another legal blow to the former president.... Carroll said, “ Oh, yes he did.” In throwing out Trump’s lawsuit, the judge wrote, “ Indeed, the jury’s verdict in Carroll II establishes, as against Mr Trump, the fact that Mr Trump ‘raped her’, albeit digitally rather than with his penis.... Trump is set to go to trial in January on another defamation lawsuit brought by Carroll in 2019

Attorneys for Donald Trump have repeated their request for a delay of the$ 83 million judgment in E. Jean Carroll's defamation case against the former president, arguing that the former columnist's lawyers contradicted themselves in a recent court filing. Defense lawyers Alina Habba--along with D. John Sauer, who was recently added to the Carroll case after arguing for presidential immunity in Trump's federal election interference case--renewed Trump's request that Judge Lewis Kaplan delay the j

Carroll," and neither a" seriously erroneous result" nor a" miscarriage of justice." Trump appealed the decision, adding it to his earlier appeal of the jury verdict.... StarPicks Harnessing the power of Youth Carroll's lawyer Roberta Kaplan, who is not related to the judge, said Carroll looks forward to collecting the$ 5 million, and" continuing to hold Trump accountable for what he did to her" at a Jan.... Trump's argument therefore ignores the bulk of the evidence at trial, misinterprets th

The jury awarded Carroll$ 5 million in damages.A different jury, in a separate civil trial, ordered Trump to pay Carroll, a former Elle magazine columnist,$ 83 million in damages.... Trump has denied the claims of those two women. Trump also faulted Kaplan's decision to allow part of the now-infamous" Access Hollywood" tape into evidence.... Trump had kissed women without their consent and then proceeded to touch their genitalia," the opinion said. Carroll's attorney, Roberta Kaplan, hailed Mo

Watch as Donald Trump is expected to appear at a New York City federal courthouse on Tuesday, 16 January, for a trial to determine the damages he owes columnist E Jean Carroll after defaming her.It comes around four months after Judge Lewis Kaplan ruled that the former president defamed Ms Carroll in 2019 when he denied sexually assaulting her in the dressing room of a Bergdorf Goodmans in the mid-1990s. The trial is taking place hours after the Republican was named the overwhelming winner of th

Trump latest –live updates “ The defendant’s litigation tactics, whatever their intent, have delayed the case to an extent that readily could have been far less, ” Judge Kaplan wrote.... In November 2019, Ms Carroll sued Mr Trump for defamation over statements he made in response to the allegations.... In a statement released after the ruling, Ms Carroll’s attorney Roberta Kaplan noted that Judge Kaplan said this case “ could have been tried and decided – one way or the other – long ago ”....

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, May 9, 2023.... " Therefore, an award of$ 2 million for such conduct, which admittedly did not cause any diagnosed mental injury to Plaintiff, is grossly excessive under the applicable case law." Kaplan, however, said in his ruling that" this jury did not award Ms.... Carroll's vagina with his fingers, causing imme