NEW YORK (AP) — The federal judge who presided over the jury trial that resulted in an $83 million award to writer E. Jean Carroll for her defamation claims against former President Donald Trump said Wednesday that his rejection of his lawyer’s unusual midtrial mistrial request was not a close call. Judge Lewis A. Kaplan […]
E. Jean Carroll attorneys Roberta Kaplan and Matthew Craig are still processing the levels of stress they endured while working across from Trump lawyer Alina Habba during the now concluded defamation trial. On Friday, Salon’s Senior News Editor, Igor Derysh, reported on Kaplan’s revelation in a podcast interview with George Conway that Trump called her a euphemism for the c-word in a […]
Former President Donald Trump announces on social media that he is “in the process” of “interviewing various law firms” to represent him in an appeal of a jury’s $83.3 million award last week to columnist E. Jean Carroll in the civil defamation trial. The announcement comes hours after one of his current lawyers in the […]
Former President Donald Trump‘s attorney Alina Habba on Tuesday backed off of a conflict of interest claim against the judge who presided over the E. Jean Carroll defamation trial after Carroll’s lawyer threatened to pursue sanctions. Habba on Monday filed a letter with the court citing a New York Post story that said U.S. District […]
Donald Trump has to cut a fat check, and his appeal of the E. Jean Carroll verdict won’t delay that. Within 30 days of the judge’s written judgment, Trump will have to turn over either cash or a bond. While he appeals the verdict, Carroll can’t touch that money — but neither can Trump. Donald Trump’s […]
Alina Habba, one of former President Donald Trump’s lawyers, swiftly walks back an assertion that the judge in E. Jean Carroll’s latest defamation lawsuit was a “mentor” of Carroll’s lawyer Roberta Kaplan and that the relationship helped result in the jury’s $83.3 million judgment against Trump. In Illinois, meanwhile, the bipartisan State Board of Elections unanimously rules […]
A legal expert warned that Donald Trump can’t use his 2024 campaign funds to compensate writer E. Jean Carroll for the $83.3 million in damages he owes her, following her second defamation lawsuit against him. Dave Aronberg, the state attorney in Florida’s Palm Beach County, where the former president’s sprawling Mar-a-Lago estate is located, spoke […]
The bipartisan Illinois State Board of Elections unanimously rules that former President Donald Trump can remain on GOP primary ballots despite a 14th Amendment challenge brought by voters that would bar him for having “engaged in insurrection” by unlawfully seeking to overturn the results of the 2020 election. The United States Supreme Court will ultimately decide whether […]
E. Jean Carroll‘s lawyer said Donald Trump attorney Alina Habba acted more professional when Trump wasn’t around. Habba “was much more disciplined” and “acted more like a lawyer,” Carroll lawyer Shawn Crowley said. Habba’s courtroom antics made headlines during the Carroll defamation trial against Trump. Donald Trump’s attorney Alina Habba — whose courtroom antics in the […]
Trump lawyer Alina Habba on Monday claimed that the judge who oversaw the former president’s defamation trial has a conflict of interest and argued that it may warrant overturning writer E. Jean Carroll’s $83.3 million jury award. Habba in a letter to the federal court in Manhattan cited a Jan. 27 New York Post article […]
By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) – A lawyer for Donald Trump said on Monday a possible conflict of interest involving the judge who oversaw E. Jean Carroll‘s recent defamation trial may justify overturning the writer’s $83.3 million award. In a letter filed in federal court in Manhattan, the lawyer Alina Habba cited a Jan. […]
Friday’s jury verdict ordering former President Donald Trump to pay columnist E. Jean Carroll $83.3 million in damages for defamation is the first in a string of legal cases that could result in millions more in fines, the potential loss of his real estate empire in New York and even a jail sentence. Here are […]