US EditionTrump loses bid to overturn $83.3 million judgment in E. Jean Carroll defamation case
The 2nd Circuit Court affirmed that President Trump's repeated defamatory statements caused significant harm, awarding $83.3 million including $65 million in punitive damages for malice and emotional injury.
- On Monday, a federal appeals court in Manhattan refused to overturn the $83.3 million award against President Donald Trump for defaming E. Jean Carroll, affirming the jury's damages as reasonable.
- After Carroll's 2019 allegation, she claims Trump assaulted her around 1996 at Bergdorf Goodman, leading to her 2023 $5 million verdict.
- The appeals court noted the $83.3 million award included $65 million in punitive damages and $18.3 million for emotional and reputational harm, citing Trump's "extraordinary and unprecedented" attacks and the case's egregious facts.
- Trump's legal team signaled they may ask the Supreme Court to review the verdict, while Roberta Kaplan welcomed the ruling and urged an end to the appeals process after Monday's decision.
- By rejecting Trump's immunity claim, the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals held he 'failed to identify any grounds' to reconsider last year's Supreme Court decision on presidential immunity.
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A New York Court of Appeal confirms the United States President's conviction to pay more than $80 million to the author for defamation.
Donald Trump fails to overturn E. Jean Carroll’s $83m defamation verdict over rape case
A federal appeals court on Monday refused to throw out an $83.3 million jury verdict against U.S. president Donald Trump for damaging the reputation of the writer E. Jean Carroll in 2019 when he denied her rape claim.
On Monday, a U.S. appeals court has reaffirmed the sentence that forces President Donald Trump to pay more than $83 million (about 71 million euros) to writer and journalist E. Jean Carroll for defaming her after she publicly denounced a case of alleged sexual abuse. The case dates back to 2019, when Carroll first unveiled Trump's assault on a store tester in New York and a New York jury found proven in another trial that he had already settled …
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