Donald Trump’s lawyer, hoping for an eventual Supreme Court victory, has asked a federal appeals court in New York to temporarily block a longtime columnist from collecting an $83 million defamation award.
The lawyer, Justin D. Smith, told the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in a filing Tuesday to stay its decision supporting the award so that Trump won’t have to pay writer E. Jean Carroll while he appeals to the high court.
A Manhattan jury awarded Carroll the payout in January 2024. Another jury in May 2023 awarded Carroll $5 million after concluding Trump sexually abused her in a Manhattan luxury department store dressing room in 1996 and then defamed her after she published her account of it in 2019.
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kmartburrito@lemmy.world · 96 pts · 112d
Rusticus@lemmy.world · 42 pts · 112d
Some pigs are more equal than others
lemmyng@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 112d
Four legs good.
Two legs better.
One foot in the grave.
timwa@lemmy.snowgoons.ro · 9 pts · 112d
If Americans were allowed books, they'd be really angry about this.
danc4498@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 112d
It’s all about the pledge to the fascists.
HubertManne@piefed.social · 33 pts · 112d
trump. lawsuits distract me from being president so I can't pay them. also trump. its fine that I sue the government I run for monies because it totally does not distract me.
boogiebored@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 112d
and run all these businesses
Pyrixas@piefed.social · 32 pts · 112d
Archangel1313@lemmy.ca · 23 pts · 112d
Well, to be fair...he's spending your money on all that other stuff. /s
Sharkticon@lemmy.zip · 30 pts · 112d
Just a bonkers legal system we have.
fodor@lemmy.zip · 7 pts · 112d
Sharkticon@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 111d
Wouldn't his estate have to pay?
Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 111d
He is planning on giving it all away to charity
Sharkticon@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 111d
Well he can claim that certainly, but that's not how Estates work. Bequeaths come after debts.
melsaskca@lemmy.ca · 16 pts · 112d
He still hasn't paid that? WTF? There is no enforcement for anything anymore? Hey everyone...grab your looting bags...it's on!!
captainlezbian@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 111d
Oh he won't ever pay what he owes. Cops like him and he's going to fight anything tooth and nail claiming he's being politically persecuted
AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space · 15 pts · 112d
Well, Chewbacca was a wookie from Endor, but there are no wookies on Endor, so obviously the judgment must be thrown out
GuyFawkesV@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 112d
Not the Chewbacca Defense!!!
WindyRebel@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 112d
Oh fuck. It’s Johnnie Cochran! I agree, this does not. Make. Sense!
bagsy@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 111d
She should have the sheriff show up at Mar-A-Lago and put locks on the door. That's what they do for non-billionaires. No one is above the law forever.
Sunflier@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 111d
finallymadeanaccount@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 112d
Trump's version of praying?
sepi@piefed.social · 3 pts · 111d