President Donald Trump on Friday lost his effort to overturn a civil jury verdict holding him liable for sexually abusing writer E. Jean Carroll in the mid-1990s and for defaming her when she went public with her claims decades later.
A majority of judges on the 2nd Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals in New York rejected Trump’s request for that court’s full bench to rehear his challenge.
A three-judge panel on the appeals court in December upheld a Manhattan federal jury’s verdict, which also ordered Trump to pay Carroll $5 million in damages.
Two 2nd Circuit judges dissented from Friday’s decision not to grant a so-called en banc rehearing of the case.
Their written dissent said the panel “sanctioned striking departures” from legal precedent “to justify the irregular judgment in this case.”
