E. Jean Carroll reacts as she exits the Manhattan Federal Court following the decision within the civil rape accusation case towards former U.S. President Donald Trump, in New York City, May 9, 2023.
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A federal appeals court docket on Wednesday denied a bid by Donald Trump to delay a defamation lawsuit by the author E. Jean Carroll, but granted him an expedited appeal on the query of whether or not he is protected against her declare due to absolute presidential immunity.
The order, issued by the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals, is a partial victory for Trump after a sequence of great losses in two lawsuits that Carroll filed towards him associated to her allegation of being raped by him within the mid-Nineteen Nineties in a New York division retailer.
Barring additional motion by that appeals court docket or the Supreme Court, the second of Carroll’s fits is headed for trial in mid-January in U.S. District Court in Manhattan.
Carroll’s lawyer Robbie Kaplan in a press release mentioned, “We look ahead each to the January 15 trial on damages and to making our arguments to the Second Circuit that Donald Trump waived presidential immunity.”
A lawyer for Trump didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark.
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