Trump Loses “Absurd” Bid To Boot Defamation Suit

Reuters reports:

A U.S. judge on Friday rejected as “absurd” former President Donald Trump’s effort to dismiss writer E. Jean Carroll’s lawsuit accusing him of defamation and battery after he denied raping her in the mid-1990s.

U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan in Manhattan said there was no merit to Trump’s argument that Carroll’s battery claim under New York’s Adult Survivors Act must be dismissed because the law denied him due process under the state’s constitution.

The judge also said state law did not require Carroll, a former Elle magazine columnist, to prove that she suffered an economic loss from Trump’s comments, as Trump had argued.

Read the full article. Carroll’s lawyer is the legendary Roberta Kaplan. Trump’s lawyer is a former OAN host.

NEW: Donald Trump’s argument that a New York law allowing older sex-assault claims violated his constitutional rights was rejected by a judge as “absurd,” in a ruling allowing E. Jean Carroll’s suit to proceed https://t.co/ZvnZspAjXZ via @bbgequality

— Erik Larson (@eelarson) January 13, 2023