Trump lawyers to ask appeals court to toss judgment in E. Jean Carroll case

Attorneys for former President Donald Trump will appear before a federal appeals panel on Friday to argue that a $5 million judgment finding him liable for sexually abusing and defaming the writer E. Jean Carroll was "unjust" and should be thrown out.

The case is one of two in which unanimous federal juries awarded Carroll a total of more than $88 million. 

In the May 2023 trial, jurors heard evidence related Carroll's allegation that in the mid-1990s, Trump sexually abused her in a department store dressing room and defamed her after she went public with the story in 2019.