WASHINGTON — A U.S. federal judge on Friday denied former President Donald Trump's fourth attempt to delay the trial date in a defamation case against him brought by the writer E. Jean Carroll.
U.S. District Court Judge Lewis Kaplan, in a 17-page order, said Trump's request to stay the case while he appealed a previous ruling from the same court failed to meet any of the criteria under which a delay would typically be granted.
The trial is currently set to begin on Monday, Jan. 15, the same day as the first-in-the-nation nominating contest in Iowa.
If the current timeline holds through January, then the trial in federal district court in the Southern District of New York will most likely begin the following day, Jan. 16.
As the defamation case wound its way through the legal system, Carroll sued Trump again in 2022 under a different statute, accusing him of both sexual abuse and defamation.
Persons:
Jean Carroll, Joe Tacopina, Donald Trump, Carroll, Trump, WASHINGTON —, Donald Trump's, Lewis Kaplan, Martin Luther King, Jr
Organizations:
Elle, U.S, of, Democratic
Locations:
New York, U.S, Iowa, Southern, of New York