A divided federal appeals court said Wednesday it will not grant a rare meeting of its active judges to hear an appeal of an $83 million verdict against President Donald Trump for defaming a magazine advice columnist over an encounter three decades ago.
The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals’ decision to reject a so-called “en banc” hearing comes several months after Trump appealed to the Supreme Court another jury’s decision to grant $5 million the writer, E. Jean Carroll, after concluding that he had sexually abused her in a department store dressing room in 1996 and later defamed her. The high court has not yet decided whether to hear the case.
Lawyers for Trump did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Carroll’s attorney, Roberta Kaplan, said in a statement that her client was “eager for this case, originally filed in 2019, to be over so that she can finally obtain justice.”
I still remember my citizenship ceremony from 2011. There was a festive spirit among the dozens...
Omar Artan, a referee from Somalia, received a hero’s welcome upon his return to Mogadishu after...
A California philosophy lecturer accused of assaulting federal agents after removing a tear gas canister agents...
A new report from the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) finds hard-right groups have increasingly expanded...
