President Donald Trump lost another appeal in his ongoing battle against paying New York writer E. Jean Carroll an $83.3 million defamation judgment after denying he sexually assaulted her.
A federal appeals court based in New York refused Trump's request to have all of its judges hear his appeal, after a panel of three of its judges heard the case and upheld the $83.3 million judgment in September. That tees up a potential appeal from Trump to the U.S. Supreme Court.
More: Did Donald Trump rape E. Jean Carroll? Here's what a jury and judge said.
The development marks the latest in an ongoing legal battle between Trump and Carroll that dates back to 2019 and includes two civil trials.
A New York federal jury awarded Carroll a $5 million judgment in 2023, after concluding Trump sexually abused her in a 1990s incident in a department store, and then defamed her when he denied it in 2022. Trump appealed that judgment, and is currently waiting for the U.S. Supreme Court to decide if it will hear the effort.
