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As former President Trump was being arraigned in Florida, he was dealt another blow when a judge allowed writer E. Jean Carroll to amend a defamation lawsuit against him. As former President Donald Trump was being arraigned in Florida Tuesday on charges related to his handling of classified documents after leaving office, a federal judge in New York dealt him another legal blow. Judge Lewis Kaplan allowed writer E. Jean Carroll to amend a pending defamation lawsuit against Trump to include allegedly disparaging comments he made about her last month after he was found liable for sexually assaulting her. MORE: E. Jean Carroll seeks to amend other Trump lawsuit for his reaction to battery verdict A jury last month found Trump liable for battery and defamation after Carroll alleged that Trump defamed her in a 2022 Truth Social post by calling her allegations "a Hoax and a lie" and saying "This woman is not my type!" when he denied her claim that he raped her in a Ber...

A judge has set an early 2024 trial date for writer E. Jean Carroll's initial defamation case against former President Trump. A judge has set an early 2024 trial date for writer E. Jean Carroll's original 2019 defamation case against former President Donald Trump. Judge Lewis Kaplan set a trial date of Jan. 15, 2024, for the case, in which Carroll claims then-President Trump defamed her in 2019 when he said she was "not my type" while denying that he raped her in a department store dressing room in the mid-1990s. Trump has denied all accusations. MORE: Judge allows E. Jean Carroll to include Trump town hall remarks in defamation suit Last month, in a separate suit, a jury found Trump liable for battery and for defaming Carroll when he said in a 2022 Truth Social post that her allegations were "a Hoax and a lie" and saying again that "This woman is not my type!" Carroll, a former Elle magazine columnist, added the charge of battery under a recen...

A judge has awarded a default judgment to Georgia election workers Ruby Freeman and Wandrea "Shaye" Moss as part of their civil defamation suit against Rudy Giuliani. A federal judge on Wednesday awarded a default judgment to a pair of Georgia election workers as part of their civil defamation suit against former Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani, who also faces separate criminal charges in Fulton County. The mother-daughter tandem of Ruby Freeman and Wandrea "Shaye" Moss are suing the former New York City mayor for defamation over erroneous remarks he made accusing the pair of fraudulently manipulating ballots on Election Day 2020 in Georgia. In the days after the election, Freeman and Moss became the subjects of a Trump-backed conspiracy theory that was later found to be "false and unsubstantiated," according to an investigation by the Georgia Elections Board. Giuliani, in an appearance before a committee of the Georgia state legislature, told lawmakers that...

Writer E. Jean Carroll's original defamation lawsuit against former President Trump should be paused to give him time to invoke an immunity defense, his attorney argues. A federal appeals court should pause writer E. Jean Carroll's original defamation lawsuit against former President Donald Trump in order to give him time to invoke an immunity defense, his attorney argued in a hearing Tuesday. The lawsuit by the former Elle magazine columnist is scheduled to go to trial in January. It alleges that Trump defamed her in 2019 when he said she was "not my type" and accused her of having a political and financial motive when he denied her rape claim. Trump has decide all wrongdoing. MORE: Judge sets January 2024 trial date for E. Jean Carroll's original defamation case against Trump The judge in the case has ruled the trial is only about money, since a jury established in a related case that Trump was liable for defaming and battering Carroll. "With a trial ...

An appeals court has returned E. Jean Carroll's defamation case to a judge who had rejected former President Trump's claim that he was acting in his official capacity. A federal appeals court in New York on Friday returned E. Jean Carroll's initial case against former President Donald Trump to a district court judge who had previously decided Trump did not act within the scope of his employment as president when he denied Carroll's rape claim and allegedly defamed her. Carroll, a former Elle columnist who alleges that Trump attacked her in the dressing room of the Bergdorf Goodman luxury department store in the 1990s, claims Trump defamed her in 2019 when, during his presidency, he denied her rape claim by calling her a liar and saying "she's not my type." Trump, who also denies the accusations, has argued that the Justice Department should be substituted as the defendant in the case because, at the time of his allegedly defamatory statements, he w...

A federal judge has denied former President Trump's latest attempt to delay the trial in the defamation and battery case brought by former Elle columnist E. Jean Carroll. A federal judge in New York on Monday denied former President Donald Trump's latest attempt to delay the trial in the defamation and battery case brought by former Elle columnist E. Jean Carroll. Carroll sued Trump in November, alleging he defamed her by calling her a liar when he denied her claim that Trump raped her in a department store dressing room in the 1990s. She added a charge of battery under a recently adopted New York law that allows adult survivors of sexual abuse to sue their alleged attacker regardless of the statute of limitations. Trump has repeatedly denied Carroll's allegations. MORE: Donald Trump seeks 4-week delay in E. Jean Carroll defamation, battery trial Trump sought a one-month delay of the trial , slated to begin on April 25, arguing a "cooling off" period was ne...