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☆ Trump tried to fight E. Jean Carroll's defamation lawsuit in court on Tuesday. Here's a rundown of where all the litigation stands.
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-10 | by ( Ashley Collman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

E. Jean Carroll, who alleges Trump raped her, sued him for defamation more than three years ago. Carroll filed a second lawsuit in November, adding a defamation claim and accusing him of battery. Five months later, Carroll sued Trump for defamation, alleging he attacked her reputation by claiming she made the story up. Trump won't be able to invoke the Westfall Act in Carroll's second lawsuit, which means at least one of her defamation claims will likely move forward. If the DC Circuit allows Carroll's first lawsuit to proceed, a trial could happen in the next few months.

☆ Judge orders unsealing of part of Trump deposition in E. Jean Carroll rape defamation suit
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-09 | by ( Dan Mangan | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

E. Jean Carroll is seen outside State Supreme Court on March 4, 2020, in New York. But the unsealed pages of Trump's deposition were not immediately available in U.S. District Court in Manhattan. And Trump's attorneys later Monday filed a letter with Judge Lewis Kaplan asking for three days to oppose the unsealing of the section of the deposition. Carroll originally sued Trump for defamation in late 2019 in New York state court. In October, she filed a second lawsuit, after he wrote a scathing Oct. 12 social media post about her rape claim, which Carroll said constituted another act of defamation.

☆ Trump is headed to court Tuesday to argue that presidents can't be sued for defamation. Here's what's at stake.
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-09 | by ( Ashley Collman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

An appeals court is set to weigh in on E. Jean Carroll's defamation suit against Donald Trump. Trump and the DOJ argue that he can't be personally sued for statements he made in office. Carroll sued Trump for defamation in November 2019, saying her career suffered "as a direct result of Trump's defamatory statements." Seth Wenig/APThe Westfall Act protects government employees from being sued for actions in the line of their work. Because he made those comments after leaving the White House, he won't be able to claim Westfall Act protection.

☆ Ron and Casey DeSantis danced to the governor's campaign song 'Sweet Florida' at the state's inaugural ball, in final event of 2-day 'DeSantis-Palooza'
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-04 | by ( Kimberly Leonard | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Casey DeSantis wore a gold embellished gown. Songs included "My Girl" and "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction," two guests leaving the event told Insider. Bill Diamond of Palm Beach told Insider the food was "very good and very inventive" and raved about the lamb. "I have had clients coming back and saying that was very Kennedy-ish," one source who attended multiple inauguration events told Insider. Casey DeSantis and the couple's son, Mason, were also present, he said, as were Lieutenant Governor Jeanette Nuñez and her husband Adrian Nuñez.

☆ Trump lawyers argue that calling rape accuser E. Jean Carroll a liar doesn't defame her as a journalist
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-22 | by ( Michelle Mark | Jacob Shamsian | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Former President Donald Trump has filed a motion to dismiss a second lawsuit from E. Jean Carroll. Trump's attorney argued he never defamed Carroll because he didn't disparage her professionally. Carroll previously sued Trump in 2019, alleging that the then-president defamed her by claiming she invented the rape allegations. Trump's court filing on Wednesday argued that Trump's October 12 statement didn't qualify as defamation because it doesn't disparage Carroll's "trade, business or profession." In response to Insider's request for comment, Carroll's attorney, Roberta Kaplan, said Carroll's team looks forward to going to trial in April 2023.

REUTERS/Carlo AllegriDec 21 (Reuters) - Donald Trump plans to argue that a New York law allowing a writer to sue the former U.S. president over claims that he raped her decades ago is unconstitutional, according to a court filing. Trump has denied Carroll's claim that he raped her in a dressing room in a Bergdorf Goodman department store 27 years ago. The former Elle magazine columnist is suing Trump for defamation and battery under New York's Adult Survivors Act. Carroll had sued Trump for defamation in 2019 for denying her allegations, and a trial is scheduled in that case for April. Reporting by Daniel Wiessner in Albany, New York; Editing by David GregorioOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

☆ E. Jean Carroll said in deposition she held back Trump rape allegation to not be seen as 'spoiled goods'
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-20 | by ( Jacob Shamsian | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Excerpts from E. Jean Carroll's deposition in her rape lawsuit against Trump were filed in court. She explains she held back her allegation because rape victims were seen as "spoiled goods." Carroll says Trump raped her in a Bergdorf Goodman's changing room in the 1990s. Trump denied Carroll's allegation and called her a liar, prompting Carroll to file a defamation lawsuit against him. In her deposition, Carroll said it took time to understand the impact the alleged attack had on her life.

WHITE HOUSE RUNOn Nov. 15 Trump launched his campaign for the Republican nomination to take on Democratic President Joe Biden. NEW YORK CRIMINAL PROBEAfter Tuesday's verdict in the tax fraud case, the New York state judge set sentencing for Jan. 13. GEORGIA ELECTION TAMPERING PROBEA special grand jury was empanelled in May for a Georgia prosecutor's inquiry into Trump's alleged efforts to influence that state's 2020 election results. Trump asked Raffensperger to "find" enough votes needed to overturn Trump's election loss in Georgia. Legal experts said Trump may have violated at least three Georgia criminal election laws: conspiracy to commit election fraud, criminal solicitation to commit election fraud and intentional interference with performance of election duties.

NEW YORK CRIMINAL PROBEFollowing Tuesday's verdict, the New York state judge set a sentencing date for Jan. 13. U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland on Nov. 18, three days after Trump announced his 2024 presidential run, appointed Jack Smith special counsel to take over two Justice Department investigations. Trump has accused the Justice Department of engaging in a partisan witch hunt. Trump asked Raffensperger to "find" enough votes needed to overturn Trump's election loss in Georgia. Legal experts said Trump may have violated at least three Georgia criminal election laws: conspiracy to commit election fraud, criminal solicitation to commit election fraud and intentional interference with performance of election duties.

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▼ + stars: | 2022-12-03 | by ( Cnn Staff | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +13 min

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☆ Trump's suggestion that E. Jean Carroll was 'too ugly to rape' was too personal to be official business, appeal says
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-02 | by ( Ashley Collman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

The DC Court of Appeals is deciding whether Trump can be sued for comments about E. Jean Carroll. But Carroll's lawyers argue in their brief, filed Thursday, that previous court rulings show the law is more nuanced. He concocted dark schemes and nefarious motives," Carroll's lawyers wrote in the brief. That is not the law — and this court should not make it so," Carroll's lawyers wrote. Carroll's lawyers want the two cases tried at the same time.

Kaplan did not rule on Carroll's request to hold one trial combining the lawsuit, which the former longtime Elle magazine columnist filed in November 2019, with a second lawsuit she filed last week accusing Trump of battery. Trump, 76, opposed combining the lawsuits, with his lawyers saying they did not know who would represent him in the second lawsuit. Carroll's lawyer Roberta Kaplan said she was pleased with the new trial date, and understood the decision to defer rulings in the second case. Carroll made the rape accusation in her memoir, and sued Trump after he claimed in June 2019 not to know her and said she was "not my type." Her first lawsuit has been delayed as appeals courts consider whether Trump was acting as president when he scoffed at the rape claim.

☆ E. Jean Carroll, writer who accused Trump of 1990s rape, files new lawsuit
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-25 | by ( The Associated Press | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +4 min

NEW YORK — A writer who accused former President Donald Trump of rape filed an upgraded lawsuit against him Thursday in New York, minutes after a new state law took effect allowing victims of sexual violence to sue over attacks that occurred decades ago. Previously, Carroll had been barred by state law from suing over the alleged rape because too many years had passed since the incident. Judge Lewis A. Kaplan, who presides over the defamation lawsuit Carroll filed three years ago, may decide to include the new claims in a trial likely to occur in the spring. Trump and Carroll also have already been deposed. Attorney Michael Madaio, a lawyer for Trump, said at the hearing that the new allegations are significantly different than the original defamation lawsuit and would require “an entirely new set” of evidence gathering.

☆ From wine to fishing tackle, retailers pray Advent calendars draw in shoppers
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-25 | by ( Doyinsola Oladipo | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

Dior is selling a $3,500 Advent calendar inside a wooden and cotton canvas box fashioned like its Paris boutique on Avenue Montaigne. For toddlers, Walmart sells the Baby Shark Advent Calendar, priced at $44.99. And for anglers, there's a $34.99 fishing tackle Advent calendar with life-like and color-changing soft baits at The Fishing Shop. Selfridges & Co has 128 Advent calendars priced from 4.99 to 623 pounds this season, more than double last year's offerings. The ALDI Holiday Magic Wine Advent Calendar includes 24 unique labels and 16 wine varieties from eight countries of origin for $59.99.

He repeated the denial in an Oct. 12 post on his Truth Social account, calling Carroll's claim a "hoax" and "lie," prompting the new defamation claim. That would likely not affect her second lawsuit because Trump is a private citizen, having left the White House in January 2021. To support her battery claim, she said Trump caused her lasting psychological harm, and left her unable to sustain a romantic relationship. She also told the judge a longer delay made sense because Trump had not hired a lawyer for the second lawsuit. Judge Kaplan said he may decide early next week how to schedule both lawsuits.

☆ E. Jean Carroll files a new lawsuit on Thanksgiving accusing Trump of rape
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-24 | by ( Ashley Collman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

E. Jean Carroll has filed a second lawsuit against former President Donald Trump. Carroll alleges Trump raped her in a Bergdorf Goodman dressing room in the mid-1990s. The second complaint stems from Carroll's allegation that Trump raped her in a Bergdorf Goodman dressing room in the mid-1990s. Now Carroll is filing a second lawsuit against Trump for additional comments calling Carroll's story a "Hoax and a lie" in October, and for battery. In the new lawsuit, Carroll's lawyers say the alleged rape caused her "significant pain and suffering, lasting psychological and pecuniary harms, loss of dignity and self-esteem, and invasion of her privacy."

WILMINGTON, Del, Nov 23 (Reuters) - Adult sexual abuse victims in New York will get an opportunity to sue over decades-old allegations beginning Thursday when a law revives a range of cases including ones against hospitals, Wall Street banks and former U.S. President Donald Trump. New York's Adult Survivors Act creates a one-year period when victims can file lawsuits that otherwise would have been barred because the case was too old. It was modeled on the state's Child Victims Act that revived old claims over child sex abuse and led to thousands of lawsuits against schools, churches and youth organizations. The number of adult cases is likely to be lower than cases involving children, said Jeff Herman, an attorney who represents victims of sexual abuse. One challenge for adult abuse cases is determining consent, said Herman.

☆ Judge tells Trump to hurry up and figure out who's representing him in new E. Jean Carroll lawsuit, saying he's 'known this was coming for months'
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-22 | by ( Ashley Collman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

The judge presiding over Trump's E. Jean Carroll lawsuit had stern words for the former president. Judge Lewis Kaplan seemed displeased Trump hadn't decided who's representing him in the new lawsuit. E. Jean Carroll in a New York courtroom for her defamation lawsuit against Donald Trump on March 4, 2020. The second lawsuit will contain a complaint of battery and a second complaint of defamation, for comments Trump made about Carroll in October of this year. On the call on Tuesday, Roberta Kaplan said that Trump's lawyers have known their intention to file the second lawsuit since August.

☆ E. Jean Carroll is suing Trump again. Here's a rundown of all the pending litigation between the two.
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-19 | by ( Ashley Collman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

E. Jean Carroll, who alleges Trump raped her, sued him for defamation more than three years ago. Insider breaks down where the pending litigation between Carroll and Trump stands. That's the day that Carroll plans to file a new lawsuit against Trump, accusing him of battery and defamation, her lawyer explained in a November 17 court filing. With multiple hearings in different courts coming up, Insider breaks down all of the pending litigation between Carroll and Trump, who recently announced he's running for president again in 2024. Five months later, Carroll sued Trump for defamation, alleging he attacked her reputation by claiming she made the story up.

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A draft of the lawsuit was included in a Thursday filing by her lawyer Roberta Kaplan in Manhattan federal court, where Carroll is also suing Trump for defamation over an earlier statement about the incident. The proposed lawsuit seeks unspecified compensatory and punitive damages, and a retraction of Trump's statement. Carroll's earlier lawsuit stemmed from Trump's June 2019 statement denying that he raped her, and saying she concocted their alleged encounter to sell her forthcoming book. Trump's lawyers have proposed a May 8 trial that does not address the second lawsuit, court papers show. The case is Carroll v. Trump, U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York, No.

☆ George Conway predicts Trump will run for president in 2024 for 'protection' against his many legal troubles
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-21 | by ( Cheryl Teh | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

George Conway thinks Trump will run in 2024 as protection against his legal cases. "He will run for president, in effect, for protection against these legal proceedings, but there's just gonna be too many of them," Conway said. The lawsuit alleges that Trump, his company, and his three oldest children — Donald Trump Jr., Eric Trump, and Ivanka Trump — misled people into investing in a multi-level marketing scheme. After the FBI raid of Mar-a-Lago, he said that he thought Trump was "in very substantial legal jeopardy." Conway is married to Kellyanne Conway , Trump's former senior counselor.

☆ Trump 'truths' misleading clips that smear rape accuser E. Jean Carroll after his deposition at Mar-a-Lago
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-20 | by ( Laura Italiano | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Trump was deposed at Mar-a-Lago on Wednesday in writer E. Jean Carroll's 2019 rape defamation suit. In his first response, Trump 'truthed' two clips from the conservative video platform Rumble. Without commenting, Trump 'truthed' out a pair of Rumble clips that combined snippets of old interview footage of Carroll. The misleadingly edited, minute-long clips use Carroll's out-of-context remarks to imply she fantasizes about rape and did not take her own accusations against Trump seriously. Carroll has accused Trump of raping her in the mid-'90s in the fitting room of a Manhattan Bergdorf Goodman store.

Carroll, a former Elle magazine columnist, sued Trump in Manhattan federal court in November 2019, five months after he denied raping her in the mid-1990s. His lawyers have argued that Trump was shielded from Carroll's lawsuit by a federal law providing immunity to government employees from defamation claims. Carroll has said she also plans to sue Trump on Nov. 24 for battery and inflicting emotional distress. Carroll has accused Trump of raping her in late 1995 or early 1996 in a dressing room at the Bergdorf Goodman department store in Manhattan. Trump has accused her of concocting the rape claim to sell her book.

Trump has accused Carroll of making up the original accusation and said the courts should have thrown out the lawsuit. His lawyers have argued that Trump was shielded from Carroll's lawsuit by a federal law providing immunity to government employees from defamation claims. Carroll has said she also plans to sue Trump on Nov. 24 for battery and inflicting emotional distress. Carroll has accused Trump of raping her in late 1995 or early 1996 in a dressing room at the Bergdorf Goodman department store in Manhattan. Trump has accused her of concocting the rape claim to sell her book.

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