Federal appeals court upholds $5 million award in sexual abuse verdict against Donald Trump
The Hindu
Federal appeals court upholds jury's $5 million award in civil case of Donald Trump sexually abusing columnist.
A federal appeals court on Monday (December 30, 2024) upheld a jury’s finding in a civil case that Donald Trump sexually abused a columnist in an upscale department store dressing room in the mid-1990s.
The second U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals issued a written opinion upholding the $5 million award that the Manhattan jury granted to E. Jean Carroll for defamation and sexual abuse.
The longtime magazine columnist had testified at a 2023 trial that Mr. Trump turned a friendly encounter in spring 1996 into a violent attack after they playfully entered the store’s dressing room.
Mr. Trump skipped the trial after repeatedly denying the attack ever happened. But he briefly testified at a follow up trial earlier this year that resulted in an $83.3 million award. The second trial resulted from comments then-President Trump made in 2019 after Carroll first made the accusations publicly in a memoir.
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