A Federal Court of Appeals refused on Friday to rehearse the challenge of President Trump to a civil judgment of $ 5 million after a jury found him responsible in 2023 for the battery and defamation of the writer E. Jean Carroll in the 1990s.
A jury in the Federal Court of Manhattan found in 2023 that Trump attacked Carroll in the costumes of a department store of Bergdorf Goodman in the 1990s and then defamed her when she denied her claim.
Trump had sought a hearing before the United States Court of Appeals for the second circuit after a panel of three judges declined to revoke the sentence.
E. Jean Carroll leaves the Federal Court of Manhattan after the verdict in the case of accusation of civil violation against former President Donald Trump, in New York, on May 9, 2023.
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A divided court left intact the decision that defends the award of jury’s damage.
The denial of the Court of Appeals of a Hearing in BANCA occurred without explanation, as is common.
In a concurrent opinion, three judges said they found “no manifest error by the District Court” that guarantees an additional review.
In the dissent, Judge Steven Menashi, appointed by Trump, said that the District Court should have allowed the defense to present evidence that Trump believed that Carroll’s demand “had been invented by his political opposition, and therefore was not speaking with real malice” when he allegedly defamed her.
In a statement that responds to Friday’s decision, Carroll’s lawyer, Roberta Kaplan, said: “E. Jean Carroll is very satisfied with today’s decision. Although President Trump continues to try all possible maneuvers to challenge the findings of two separate juries, those efforts have failed. He remains responsible for sexual aggression and defamation.”
Trump is also appealing a separate defamation award from $ 83 million to Carroll.
