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☆ Federal judge upholds verdict in E. Jean Carroll case and denies Trump’s motion for a new trial
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-25 | by ( Kara Scannell | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: 1 min

CNN —A federal judge on Thursday upheld the verdict and award in E. Jean Carroll’s defamation case against former President Donald Trump and denied Trump’s motion for a new trial. Judge Lewis Kaplan, in a written opinion, said Trump’s legal arguments are without merit. The judge also found that the punitive damages the jury awarded to Carroll “passes constitutional muster.”Trump is also separately appealing the verdict. This is a breaking story and will be updated.

Persons: Jean Carroll’s, Donald Trump, Lewis Kaplan, Carroll “, ” Trump Organizations: CNN

CNN —The first criminal trial of former President Donald Trump is here. Trump has complained that he cannot get a fair jury in Manhattan, where the jurors must live. He was fined twice for violating a gag order imposed by New York Judge Arthur Engoron in his civil fraud trial. This payment is not part of the charges against Trump, but prosecutors have said that the testimony would help establish a pattern of payments. Merchan also denied prosecutors’ request to show E. Jean Carroll’s deposition from her defamation case against Trump because it would be “building in a trial into a trial.”

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☆ How Donald Trump has handled juries so far
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-11 | by ( Jeremy Herb | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +10 min

CNN —Three months ago, Donald Trump took the stand before a jury of nine in a New York courtroom without his typical bombast or ranting. “The record will reflect that Mr. Trump just rose and walked out of the courtroom,” Judge Lewis Kaplan announced, in case any jurors had missed it. “I mean, our whole case was about the fact that Donald Trump is unable to follow the law, unable to follow the rules. But just having political views about Trump, for or against, won’t be a reason for potential jurors to be dismissed. When Kaplan asked jurors a series of questions individually, Trump turned in his chair to watch each person speak.

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☆ ‘He really pushes the boundaries’: How Trump has challenged judges trying to rein him in
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-02 | by ( Jeremy Herb | Kara Scannell | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +10 min

New York CNN —It took Donald Trump less than 24 hours to test the boundaries of Judge Juan Merchan’s gag order in his New York criminal trial. Inside the courtroom, Trump has been admonished and threatened with removal for being disruptive. Outside the courtroom, Trump has repeatedly railed against the charges he faces in front of cameras and attacked all of those involved on social media. Engoron issued a gag order on commentary about court staff that covered his clerk, fining Trump twice for breaking it. In the federal classified documents case, Trump has appeared several times before Judge Aileen Cannon, whom he appointed.

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☆ Trump stares down first derailment of his campaign-to-courthouse strategy
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-23 | by ( Phil Mattingly | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +11 min

Yet even if the higher-end estimate is accurate, as Trump’s lawyers have made clear in sober, detailed filings, it wouldn’t be enough. And at least some of the money Trump does have is tied up in loan agreements that include terms requiring him to have tens of millions of dollars in cash on hand. One insurer, Chubb, underwrote a $91.63 million bond just two weeks ago in another Trump legal loss – E. Jean Carroll’s defamation case. In the past week, the insurer informed Trump’s team it could not accept property as collateral. In total, 30 insurers contacted by Trump’s team declined to pursue the effort to secure a bond.

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☆ Trump sues ABC News and George Stephanopoulos for defamation over Nancy Mace interview
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-19 | by ( Oliver Darcy | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

CNN —Former President Donald Trump filed yet another lawsuit against the news media late Monday, accusing ABC News and George Stephanopoulos of defamation over assertions the anchor made in a combative interview. Stephanopoulos asserted multiple times in the interview with Mace that Trump had “raped” Carroll. “You endorsed Donald Trump for president. How do you square your endorsement of Donald Trump with the testimony that we just saw?” Stephanopoulos asked Mace. Dismissing a countersuit months later, however, the judge in the case concluded that the claim Trump raped Carroll was “substantially true.”“Indeed, the jury’s verdict in Carroll II establishes, as against Mr Trump, the fact that Mr Trump ‘raped her’, albeit digitally rather than with his penis.

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Three days after Donald J. Trump posted a $91.6 million bond in the defamation case he lost recently to the writer E. Jean Carroll, her lawyer on Monday suggested she was considering filing yet another defamation lawsuit against the former president. The lawyer raised the prospect of a new lawsuit after Mr. Trump in recent days repeatedly lashed out at Ms. Carroll, using the same kind of disparaging language that led to the huge judgment against him in January. “The statute of limitations for defamation in most jurisdictions is between one and three years,” Roberta A. Kaplan, Ms. Carroll’s lawyer, said in a statement Monday morning. “As we said after the last jury verdict, we continue to monitor every statement that Donald Trump makes about our client.”In a separate court filing, Ms. Kaplan told the federal judge overseeing the case that she and Mr. Trump’s lawyers had reached an agreement on the details of his proposed $91.6 million bond. The bond — provided by Federal Insurance Company, an arm of the insurance giant Chubb — will prevent Ms. Carroll from collecting her multi-million-dollar judgment while Mr. Trump appeals the defamation verdict.

Persons: Donald J, Trump, Jean Carroll, Carroll, ” Roberta A, Kaplan, Donald Trump, Chubb Organizations: Federal Insurance Company

☆ Trump posts nearly $92 million bond in E. Jean Carroll defamation case
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-08 | by ( Kara Scannell | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

CNN —Former President Donald Trump has posted a $91.63 million bond as he appeals the judgment against him in the E. Jean Carroll defamation case. The notice of Trump’s bond and appeal was made with the federal court in New York on Friday. Insurance company Chubb underwrote the bond for Trump, which the former president signed on Tuesday. Under the terms of the bond, Chubb will only secure the appeal of the $83.3 million judgment, not any future appeals. In a statement, a Chubb spokesperson declined to comment on the specifics of Trump’s bond.

Persons: Donald Trump, Jean Carroll, Carroll, Chubb, ” Trump, Trump Organizations: CNN, Carroll, Insurance, Trump, Chubb, New Locations: New York, American

☆ Trump attorneys accuse Manhattan DA of waging a ‘fantasy’ case against Trump
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-06 | by ( Jeremy Herb | Kara Scannell | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

CNN —Donald Trump’s attorneys accused Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg of a pursuing a “fantasy” case against the former president by tying hush-money payments made to his former attorney Michael Cohen with the 2016 election. Both Trump’s lawyers and the district attorney’s office have urged the judge to exclude testimony and arguments from the other side. “The case the People charged is a lawless 34-count indictment relating to record entries reflecting monthly retainer payments President Trump made to his personal attorney Michael Cohen in 2017,” Trump’s attorneys wrote. “The People’s motions in limine, on the other hand, describe a fantasy: an uncharged ‘underlying conspiracy’ to ‘influence the 2016 election’ that the District Attorney wishes President Trump had not won. Still, Trump’s attorneys are trying to limit what can go before the jury when the trial begins later this month.

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☆ 'Clean' property, private lenders could be Trump's best option to get $540 million for legal judgments
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-05 | by ( Kevin Breuninger | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +6 min

A more important factor could be whether Trump's real estate assets are already mortgaged, said law professor John Coffee. "He would have to come up with clean real estate property that is not already securing something that some other bank has a lien on," Coffee said. Michele Eve Sandberg | AFP | Getty ImagesIn New York City, the value of Trump's real estate holdings totals $690 million, according to a September 2023 estimate by Forbes. New York Attorney General Letitia James, who brought the fraud case, said she would seize Trump's real estate assets if he cannot pay his civil penalty. They instead offered to post a $100 million bond, but New York appeals court Judge Anil Singh rejected the proposal.

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New York CNN —Donald Trump is facing a cash crunch as deadlines are quickly approaching to find over half a billion dollars he owes in judgments. The scramble over the past week reveals challenges Trump is facing in raising the combined judgments totaling $537 million. It’s unclear how much cash Trump has on hand. Trump offered to post a $100 million bond to cover the New York attorney general’s case, but the appeals court judge rejected it. The sheer size of the judgments raises practical questions about how the Trump could feasibly come up with the cash.

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NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump's legal debts might now exceed a half-billion dollars. The verdict in the civil fraud trial requires Trump to pay interest on some of the deal profits he has been ordered to give up. As part of Friday’s ruling, the judge also ordered both of Trump’s sons to pay $4 million apiece. Last month, he was ordered to pay nearly $400,000 in legal fees to The New York Times after suing the newspaper unsuccessfully. Under the judge's ruling Friday, Trump would still be liable to pay even if the Trump Organization declares bankruptcy.

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☆ Judge affirms $83.3 million verdict against Donald Trump in E. Jean Carroll defamation case
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-08 | by ( Kara Scannell | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +1 min

CNN —A federal judge formally ordered Donald Trump to pay $83.3 million to E. Jean Carroll, endorsing the jury’s verdict from the defamation trial last month. This will be the second judgment Carroll has won against Trump. Last May, Trump appealed the verdict to the 2nd US Circuit Court of Appeals, which has not yet heard arguments. In the current case, a jury found Carroll should receive $83.3 million in damages to repair her reputation, to compensate her, and to punish Trump. The judge found that the prior verdict should carry over to statements at issue in the last trial since they were similar.

Persons: Donald Trump, Jean Carroll, Carroll, Trump Organizations: CNN, Trump, US, Appeals

☆ Judge denies Trump’s motion for mistrial in E. Jean Carroll defamation case
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-07 | by ( Kara Scannell | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +1 min

CNN —A federal judge denied Donald Trump’s motions for a mistrial in the defamation case brought by columnist E. Jean Carroll saying the former president’s arguments had no “merit” and are “entirely pointless.”Judge Lewis Kaplan denied Trump’s motions from the bench during the civil trial and said a written order would follow. In the written order on Wednesday, the judge said granting a request for a mistrial “would have been entirely pointless” because it would only mean that the case would start over. Trump argued for a mistrial when Carroll admitted she deleted some death threats she received immediately after her allegations against Trump became public in June 2019. He also denied Trump’s request for sanctions and criticized Trump’s attorneys for first making the motion for a mistrial in front of the jury during Carroll’s cross-examination when they had known about the deletion of messages for over a year. The jury hearing the case awarded Carroll $83.3 million in damages.

Persons: Donald Trump’s, E, Jean Carroll, Lewis Kaplan, Trump, Carroll, George Conway, Carroll’s Organizations: CNN, Trump

☆ Trump New York business fraud case verdict delayed to later February
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-01 | by ( Kevin Breuninger | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

That new timeline for the written decision by Judge Arthur Engoron is still a "rough estimate" and "subject to modifications," said Alfred Baker, spokesman for the New York State Office of Court Administration. A verdict in the New York civil business fraud trial of former President Donald Trump — which had been anticipated Wednesday — is now expected to arrive in early- to mid-February, a court spokesman said. In the case, New York Attorney General Letitia James accuses Trump, the Trump Organization, his two adult sons, and top company executives of inflating Trump's net worth on his financial statements in violation of a state anti-fraud law. The trial was conducted to determine penalties and resolve other claims of wrongdoing from James' lawsuit. Reuters first reported the new timeframe for the verdict.

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☆ Roberta Kaplan says Trump threw papers across table at Mar-a-Lago deposition because his legal team agreed to feed her lunch
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-01 | by ( Kaanita Iyer | Jamie Gangel | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

CNN —Attorney Roberta Kaplan said former President Donald Trump threw papers across a table and stormed off during a deposition at Mar-a-Lago after learning that his legal team had agreed to provide her lunch. You could really almost see it,” Kaplan told Republican strategist Sarah Longwell and conservative attorney George Conway, a longtime Trump critic. And stormed out of the room,” Kaplan shared, adding that Trump specifically yelled at his lawyer Alina Habba for providing them lunch. He said, ‘I told you, I told them to make you really bad sandwiches, but they can’t help themselves here. E. Jean Carroll and attorney Roberta Kaplan (R) is seen leaving Manhattan Federal Court on January 26, 2024 in New York City.

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☆ E. Jean Carroll’s attorney denies last-ditch claims raised by Trump’s lawyer about ties to judge
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-30 | by ( Lauren Del Valle | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

Judge Kaplan and Roberta Kaplan (the two are not related) overlapped for about two years in the early 1990s at the Paul, Weiss firm when he was a senior partner and she was a junior associate. Judge Kaplan left the high-profile firm in 1994 when he was nominated to the Southern District of New York where he’s been a sitting federal judge since. In fact, I remember no direct interaction from that time period with Your Honor at all,” Roberta Kaplan wrote in her letter Tuesday addressing the judge. Their interactions have been limited to E Jean Carroll’s litigation against Trump and one other case he presided over, according to Roberta Kaplan. Carroll’s lawyer also said she wanted to respond to the allegations quickly but reserves her right to seek sanctions against Trump’s attorneys.

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☆ E. Jean Carroll and the Value of a Woman ‘Past Her Prime’ - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-29 | by ( Jessica Bennett | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Today she’s typically described as a former advice columnist — but that term doesn’t really do justice to E. Jean Carroll’s career pre-Donald Trump. Long before she was one of the longest-serving advice columnists in America, Ms. Carroll blazed trails as a gonzo-style journalist The Times once called “feminism’s answer to Hunter Thompson.”She profiled Lyle Lovett and went camping with the notorious New York curmudgeon Fran Lebovitz for a cover story in Outside. She wrote a famous piece on Dan Rather for Esquire, appeared in the “Best American Best Crime Writing,” and was the first female contributing editor at Playboy — back when people really did read it for the articles. Today, at best, she’s “former Elle advice columnist” E. Jean Caroll.” At worst, she’s the crazy Trump rape lawsuit lady. Or, as she put it in court recently: “Previously, I was known simply as a journalist, and now I’m known as the liar, the fraud and the wack job.”

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☆ On Donald Trump, E. Jean Carroll and the Limits of Libel Law - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-28 | by ( Ronnell Andersen Jones | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

In the days since a New York jury ordered Donald Trump to pay $83.3 million in damages to the libel plaintiff E. Jean Carroll, the question has been whether the dollar amount was high enough to put a stop to his lies. That we must ask this question tells us something important about the moment in which we find ourselves. And it tells us something important about both the value and the limits of libel law. As Ms. Carroll’s lawyers argued, Mr. Trump has bragged of wealth far exceeding this amount. But this “will he or won’t he?” speculation is only the latest data point in a larger, more alarming trend of libel damages simply not seeming to carry the deterrent effect that defamation law presupposes they will have.

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☆ Opinion: E. Jean Carroll’s victory over Trump is every survivor’s victory
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-26 | by ( Opinion Ana Marie Cox | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

CNN —The $83.3 million verdict handed down in E. Jean Carroll’s defamation case against former President Donald Trump on Friday is far more than a judgment against Trump. In May, a Manhattan federal jury found Trump sexually abused Carroll in 1996. Legally, the award is an attempt to quantify the damages Trump wreaked on Carroll’s reputation, her sense of self and her life. I think most humans, including everyone on that jury, recognize that what Trump took from Carroll can’t be quantified. It just hurt.”But if Carroll’s story wasn’t easily slotted onto some universally understood, objective spectrum of sexual violence, that’s because there is no objective spectrum of sexual violence.

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That verdict is still being appealed, and Trump within minutes of Friday’s verdict declared he will appeal this one as well. Carroll proved to jury she suffered harm from Trump’s defamatory statementsIt didn’t take the jury long to return a verdict against Trump, with deliberations lasting less than three hours. Trump’s attorney argued that Carroll would have received hateful messages when she wrote her story no matter what Trump said. “But President Trump should not have to pay for their threats. “You are on the verge of spending some time in the lock up, now sit down,” he said to Trump’s attorney.

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Judge Kaplan said jurors should be identified only by number and even suggested they not share their actual names with one other. People were asked whether they had ever contributed money or supported a political campaign for Mr. Trump, Mr. Obama, Hillary Clinton or Joe Biden. “Have any of you ever read any books by Mr. Trump?” the judge asked. “Would that affect your ability to be fair to both sides in this case?” Judge Kaplan asked. “I want to stipulate that I am on the left,” Ms. Carroll remarked drolly.

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A jury last year agreed that it happened and awarded Carroll $5 million in damages for sexual abuse and defamation. Trump denies ever knowing Carroll and says she made up her claims to sell a memoir. He did not testify at or attend last year's trial, a decision he now says he regrets. Thus, Kaplan has ruled, Trump will be barred from testifying about subjects that would conflict with last year's verdict. The current trial is in addition to four criminal cases Trump faces as the presidential primary season heats up.

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The defense’s questions were effectively pre-cleared by the judge, as Trump was not allowed to re-litigate the verdict from last year. Trump attorney Alina Habba first asked her client whether he stood by his testimony in a previous deposition denying Carroll’s allegations. Habba then asked, “Did you deny the allegation because Ms. Carroll made an accusation.”“That’s exactly right, yes I did.” Trump replied. Habba asked Martin whether she felt that Carroll enjoyed the attention that came with her lawsuits against Trump. In the first trial, Martin said she was having issues with Carroll at the time she sent the messages and later felt bad about it.

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“The thing you’ve got to do primarily is set rules and enforce them,” said John S. Martin Jr., a former U.S. District Court judge in Manhattan. In Ms. Carroll’s defamation trial, Mr. Trump seemed almost to be goading Judge Kaplan into throwing him out of the courtroom. After his two recent confrontations with the judges, Mr. Trump held news conferences before cheering supporters in the lobby of his building at 40 Wall Street. Ms. Carroll’s defamation trial is being heard by a nine-person jury in Federal District Court, with Judge Kaplan overseeing the proceedings. During his diatribe, Mr. Trump refrained from attacking any staff members.

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