President Trump plans to ask the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn a jury verdict finding he sexually abused E. Jean Carroll in the mid-1990s and later defamed her. His lawyers requested an extension to Nov. 11 to seek review of the $5 million judgment and described the appeal as involving significant issues. A three-judge 2nd Circuit panel upheld the verdict and denied rehearing by the full court. Carroll testified the encounter became a violent attack in a dressing room, and the jury found Trump liable for defamation for his October 2022 comments denying the allegation.
NEW YORK -- President Donald Trump will soon ask the 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, his lawyers said in a recent court filing. Trump's lawyers previewed the move as they asked the high court to extend its deadline for challenging the $5 million verdict from Sept. 10 to Nov. 11.
The president "intends to seek review" of "significant issues" arising from the trial and the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals' subsequent decisions upholding the verdict, his lawyers said. Carroll's lawyer, Roberta Kaplan, said Wednesday: "We do not believe that President Trump will be able to present any legal issues in the Carroll cases that merit review by the United States Supreme Court."
Carroll testified at a 2023 trial that Trump turned a friendly encounter in spring 1996 into a violent attack in the dressing room at Bergdorf Goodman, a luxury retailer across the street from Trump Tower. The jury also found Trump liable for defaming Carroll when he made comments in October 2022 denying her allegation. A three-judge appellate panel upheld the verdict last December, rejecting Trump's claims that trial Judge Lewis A. Kaplan's decisions spoiled the trial, including by allowing two other Trump sexual abuse accusers to testify.
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