A federal judge granted a motion by E. Jean Carroll to file an amended defamation suit against former President Trump seeking at least $10 million, based in part on recent comments Trump made on CNN.
against him in a different civil case that alleged sexual abuse and defamation.
On Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan granted that motion. The decision came the same day the former president was“We look forward to moving ahead expeditiously on E. Jean Carroll’s remaining claims,” said Carroll's attorney Roberta Kaplan, who is no relation to the judge. The civil verdict and $5 million judgment reached by a jury in May was filed in 2022 about comments Trump made that year as a private citizen.Carroll stated that Trump raped her in the dressing room of a Bergdorf Goodman department store near his Fifth Avenue home in 1995 or 1996.for sexually abusing her and for defamation, but it did not find that the evidence showed Trump raped her.
"We maintain that she should not be permitted to retroactively change her legal theory, at the eleventh hour, to avoid the consequences of an adverse finding against her," Habba said in a statement.
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