US EditionTrump asks Supreme Court to toss E. Jean Carroll sex abuse verdict
Trump seeks Supreme Court review after a 2023 jury found him liable for sexual abuse and defamation, with $5 million awarded to columnist E. Jean Carroll.
- On Monday, President Donald Trump asked the Supreme Court to overturn the sexual abuse and defamation verdict won by E. Jean Carroll following a 2023 jury finding and ongoing appeals.
- E. Jean Carroll alleges the assault occurred in a New York City department store in the late 1990s, though she does not recall an exact date, while President Donald Trump denies the claims and says she fabricated them to harm him or boost her career.
- Arguing lack of corroboration, Trump's filing told the high court there were no eyewitnesses, video, or police reports, while a federal appeals court panel affirmed the damages award and rejected Trump’s legal challenges last year.
- Whether the Supreme Court takes up the case is yet to be seen, CNN noted, and the litigation remains separate from the half-billion-dollar civil fraud judgment New York Attorney General Letitia James won against Trump.
- The $83 million defamation award and contested timing of Carroll's accusation add to President Donald Trump's legal exposure after a separate jury ordered damages.
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Trump asks Supreme Court to throw out E. Jean Carroll's $5 million verdict
President Donald Trump has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to throw out a jury’s finding in a civil lawsuit that he sexually abused writer E. Jean Carroll at a Manhattan department store in the mid-1990s and later defamed her.
Trump asks US Supreme Court to overturn E. Jean Carroll $5 million sexual abuse and defamation verdict
In a filing before the apex court on Monday, Trump’s lawyers argued that allegations leading to a verdict by the jury in the $5 million civil case were “propped up” by a “series of indefensible evidentiary rulings".
Trump Asks Supreme Court to Overturn Abuse Case
President Donald Trump has asked the Supreme Court to overturn a jury verdict that found him liable for abuse against writer E. Jean Carroll in the mid-1990s, according to his legal team. Carroll has taken Trump to trial twice and secured a total of $88.3 million in damages. The petition marks the first time the dispute has reached the nation's highest court. In 2023, a Manhattan jury found Trump liable for sexually abusing Carroll in a departme…
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