Tag Archives: E. Jean Carroll

CNN reports: A jury in Manhattan federal court has reached a verdict in the civil defamation trial to determine how much in damages Donald Trump should pay E. Jean Carroll – if any — for defamatory public statements he made about the writer in 2019, according to a court official. Former President Donald Trump departed the Manhattan federal courthouse around …

Posted just now to Trump’s Truth Social account: Judge Kaplan refuses to allow the Anderson Cooper Interview on CNN of E. Jean Carroll wherein Carroll says, “Rape is sexy,” and numerous other things that totally exonerate me. Judge Kaplan is refusing me my Constitutional Right to Due Process, to defend myself against this False Accusation. This is a one-sided trial, …

The New York Daily News reports: Donald Trump stormed out of the defamation trial brought by E. Jean Carroll just minutes into closing arguments by the writer’s lawyers Friday morning. “This case is about how to compensate Ms. Carroll for the harm that Mr. Trump’s original statements — going back to June 2019 — caused her,” Carroll’s attorney, Roberta Kaplan, …

Reuters reports: The writer E. Jean Carroll’s lawsuit against Donald Trump is likely headed for a jury on Friday, after lawyers for both sides offer final arguments on how much Trump damaged Carroll’s reputation by denying he raped her. Carroll, 80, is seeking at least $10 million over Trump’s June 2019 denials, when he was president, that he had raped …

CNN reports: Donald Trump lost another bid to throw out a defamation suit by E. Jean Carroll on Thursday, as the former president braces to testify in an effort to limit additional damages on top of a $5 million sexual abuse verdict last year. “The motion is denied,” senior U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan ruled, after Carroll’s case wrapped in …

Bloomberg News reports: Two days after his decisive victory in the New Hampshire primary, Donald Trump is set to take the witness stand in New York to rebut defamation claims by writer E. Jean Carroll — testing his ability to sway a federal jury and a judge he’s already clashed with. Trump’s plan to testify Thursday gives him a chance …

The New York Times reports: The trial of E. Jean Carroll’s defamation suit against Donald J. Trump was delayed until Wednesday after a juror fell ill. Judge Lewis A. Kaplan did not give a reason for his decision, which was announced by the federal court in Manhattan late Monday. The decision followed uncertainty over the condition of the juror and …

Newsweek reports: A recent Donald Trump press conference in which he again attacked writer E. Jean Carroll is being used against him in court. During the press conference, Trump accused Carroll of telling a “made up, fabricated story” of sexual assault, according to a court filing on Saturday, January 20 by Carroll’s lawyer, Roberta Kaplan. Kaplan wants Trump’s comments shown …

CNN reports: Northwestern University professor Ashlee Humphreys, who was called as a witness by E. Jean Carroll’s lawyers as an expert on damages, testified it could cost up to $12.1 million for Carroll to repair her reputation with those who likely believed Donald Trump. Humphreys — who was contracted to analyze the reach of Donald Trump’s statements and assess the …

CNN reports: Once E. Jean Carroll is off the witness stand, her lawyers plan to call an expert witness and others who testified at the first defamation trial last year as part of their case that Donald Trump should pay damages for defaming Carroll denying her rape allegations. And Carroll’s lawyers have indicated they may play portions of Trump’s 2022 …

NBC News reports: Former President Donald Trump intends to attend the start of the new E. Jean Carroll civil damages trial on Tuesday, according to two sources with direct knowledge of his plans. The second trial, set to start on Tuesday, involves Trump’s public comments about Carroll that he made both while he was president and after the jury’s verdict …

The Messenger reports: Writer E. Jean Carroll’s attorney warned a federal judge on Friday that Donald Trump may seek to “sow chaos,” asking the court to lay down ground rules keeping the 2024 Republican presidential frontrunner from turning his upcoming second trial into a “circus.” “Indeed, he may well perceive a benefit in seeking to poison these proceedings, where the …

The Associated Press reports: A judge late Saturday said former President Donald Trump’s lawyers can’t present legal arguments to a jury assessing damages at a defamation trial on a jury’s conclusion last year that he didn’t rape a columnist in the mid-1990s. U.S. District Judge Lewis A. Kaplan made the determination in an order in advance of a Jan. 16 …

CNBC reports: A New York federal appeals court on Wednesday rejected a last-ditch effort by Donald Trump to delay his upcoming civil trial for defaming E. Jean Carroll after the writer accused the former president of raping her decades ago. Unless the U.S. Supreme Court accepts Trump’s appeal, he is expected to begin trial in the case on Jan. 16 …

The Daily Beast reports: A New York federal jury in May already found that Trump sexually abused the journalist E. Jean Carroll, awarding her $5 million. But that issue is coming back with a vengeance next month, with Trump bracing for a punishing second trial specifically over the way he defamed her from the White House by denying her claims. …

The Guardian reports: Donald Trump cannot assert presidential immunity from a defamation lawsuit by E Jean Carroll, the writer who accused him of rape, a US appeals court ruled on Wednesday, dealing him another setback in litigation she has pursued. The second US circuit court of Appeals in Manhattan upheld a federal judge’s decision to reject Trump’s claim of immunity. …

The New York Times reports: A federal judge in Manhattan ruled Friday that the jury in a forthcoming defamation trial against Donald J. Trump will be kept anonymous for the jurors’ own protection, citing the potential for harassment by the former president’s supporters. In ordering the anonymous jury, the judge, Lewis A. Kaplan of Federal District Court, noted Mr. Trump …

ABC News reports: Attorneys for former President Donald Trump will ask a federal appeals court on Monday to overturn rulings that have kept alive writer E. Jean Carroll’s 2019 defamation lawsuit against him. U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan in July declined to dismiss Carroll’s case and limited some of Trump’s defenses. A trial is scheduled for January. The judge has …

CNBC reports: A federal judge on Wednesday ruled that Donald Trump is liable for defamatory statements he made about the writer E. Jean Carroll in 2019 when she went public with claims he had raped her decades earlier. Judge Lewis Kaplan, as part of that ruling, said that the upcoming trial for Carroll’s civil lawsuit against Trump will only deal …

Reuters reports: A U.S. judge on Friday declared that 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 claims that he raped her. U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan in Manhattan also denied Trump’s bid to delay the case while he appeals. “Mr. Trump …