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☆ Opinion: Trump’s congestion pricing outrage is classic ‘dead cat’ strategy
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-09 | by ( Opinion Rosa Prince | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

In short, Trump’s New York congestion comment was classic dead cat. In the same Truth Social message, the former president mused about the impact of congestion pricing elsewhere in the world. After all, congestion pricing has been introduced in a number of cities, from Singapore to Stockholm, over the past 25-odd years. I live about four miles from the edge of the congestion zone, and it’s never once been a problem to circumvent. By most metrics, London’s congestion pricing experiment has been a resounding success.

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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.

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His testimony, after days of anticipation, lasted less than five minutes. “Defense calls President Donald Trump,” Alina Habba, his lead lawyer, told the court. She asked the former president whether he stood by his remarks in a deposition in which he had called Ms. Carroll a liar. “One hundred percent, yes,” Mr. Trump said. Ms. Carroll’s lawyer, Roberta A. Kaplan, had written to the judge, saying Trump might see a political benefit “from intentionally turning this trial into a circus.”

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☆ ‘Danny and the Deep Blue Sea’ Review: Aubrey Plaza Steps Into the Ring
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-14 | by ( Elisabeth Vincentelli | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

These two hopeless loners are the only people in the bar in this Off Broadway revival of John Patrick Shanley’s “Danny and the Deep Blue Sea,” at the Lucille Lortel Theater. Though modest in scale, the show is one of the fall’s hottest thanks to its stars, Aubrey Plaza and Christopher Abbott. Shanley’s writing sometimes devolves into hard-boiled mannerisms, but it also has a sharp pugnaciousness. Similarly, Abbott and Plaza’s performances move beyond histrionics and gain confidence as their characters start letting themselves feel. When Danny and Roberta finally strike up a conversation, it immediately reveals their combustible approaches to life itself.

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☆ Claudia Quaatey dreamed of becoming a nurse before she was fatally shot in New York City
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-25 | by ( Aya Elamroussi | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

CNN —At just 14 years old, Claudia Quaatey decided to run her own hair braiding business from her New York home as she prepared to support herself through nursing school. “Claudia was not perfect, but Claudia was exactly what I prayed for.”Claudia Quaatey and her mother, Marian Abbey. Claudia was shot once while sitting in the back seat of a car, a law enforcement official with knowledge of the case told CNN. Her mother later told CNN that Claudia had plans to braid a friend’s hair that evening. Courtesy Marian AbbeyBorn to Christian Ghanian parents in New York City, Claudia grew up to be the kind of person who was empathetic and caring.

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☆ Trump Asks Judge to Stop E. Jean Carroll’s Defamation Case
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-05 | by ( Benjamin Weiser | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Ms. Carroll, 79, asked the judge to punish him further in a parallel case that is still open before him. In it, she accused Mr. Trump of defaming her after she publicly disclosed the attack for the first time, in a New York magazine article. Ms. Carroll’s lead lawyer, Roberta A. Kaplan, said in a statement Monday evening that nothing about the verdict in the recent trial was inconsistent with Ms. Carroll’s longstanding claim. She added: “The jury believed E. Jean Carroll when she testified that Trump sexually abused her. As a result, the jury concluded that Trump knowingly lied about Ms. Carroll when he claimed otherwise.”

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☆ Opinion | A Guilty Ex-President
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-10 | by ( David French | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

The jury was charged with determining whether Carroll proved her claims with a preponderance of the evidence, not beyond a reasonable doubt. In other words, it had to decide whether Carroll’s claims were more likely true than false. But the case was not a simple matter of “he said, she said.” Carroll provided her own testimony, of course. You can do anything.”In the deposition, Carroll’s lawyer, Roberta A. Kaplan, asked Trump specifically about that quote. “Well, historically, that’s true with stars,” he responded.

On Tuesday, Ms. Carroll nodded along as a court clerk read the verdict aloud, her nod growing more pronounced as the clerk said Mr. Trump was liable for defamation. She walked out of the courthouse grinning from ear to ear, holding hands with her lawyer, Roberta A. Kaplan. A woman yelled to Ms. Carroll, “You’re so brave and beautiful.” Ms. Carroll replied, “Thank you, thank you so much.”In a later statement, she said: “I filed this lawsuit against Donald Trump to clear my name and to get my life back. Now the jury has labeled him not a Lothario but an abuser. The findings are civil, not criminal, meaning Mr. Trump has not been convicted of any crime and faces no prison time.

☆ Gabby Petito’s parents allege Brian Laundrie’s mother wrote about ‘baking a cake with a shiv in it’ should he go to prison, in court filing
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-08 | by ( Jean Casarez Zoe Sottile | Jean Casarez | Zoe Sottile | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

Roberta and Christopher Laundrie have asked the court for a protective order so they don’t have to turn over the letter. The Petitos filed a civil lawsuit against the Laundries for emotional distress in connection with Gabby’s death while traveling with Brian, her fiancé. Brian was found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound around a month after Gabby’s remains were discovered in September 2021. Brian admitted that he was responsible for Gabby’s death in a notebook found with his remains, according to the FBI. The Petitos’ lawsuit, filed in March 2022, alleges outrageous behavior of intentional infliction of emotional distress by the Laundries during the time Gabby was missing.

It was Ms. Martin who advised her not to go to the police, Ms. Carroll testified. Ms. Kaplan said they also expected that Ms. Carroll’s sister would testify. Ms. Kaplan said she planned to finish presenting Ms. Carroll’s case perhaps by midday on Thursday. “She said, ‘Lisa, you are not going to believe what happened to me,’” Ms. Birnbach testified. She said Ms. Carroll sounded “breathless, hyperventilating, emotional.”

On Wednesday, the judge said Mr. Trump’s out-of-court statements seemed “entirely inappropriate” and suggested Mr. Trump might be trying to influence members of the jury. “I will speak to my client and ask him to refrain from any further posts regarding this case,” Mr. Tacopina said. Mr. Tacopina said the day before that he did not yet know whether Mr. Trump would take the witness stand. Judge Kaplan said that he wanted an answer this week, adding that not knowing was an “imposition” on security and court staff. Ms. Carroll wrote that he pushed her against a dressing room wall, pulled down her tights, opened his pants and then forced himself upon her.

☆ Former Elle columnist, who accused Trump of sexually assaulting her in the 1990s, plans to sue under New York law that opens up statute of limitations for abuse cases
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-21 | by ( Lloyd Lee | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

The writer sued Trump for defamation after he denied sexually assaulting her in a dressing room in the 1990s. Carroll's lawyer is asking to combine the defamation trial with a civil sexual battery suit. The writer was unable to pursue a case against Trump due to the state's statute of limitations on certain sexual offenses. Carroll previously made the accusation against Trump public in her 2019 memoir, "What Do We Need Men For?" "To date, discovery in the above-referenced defamation case has been entirely one way," Kaplan wrote.

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