A federal appeals court docket panel on Monday upheld a jury’s verdict discovering President-elect Trump answerable for sexually assaulting recommendation columnist E. Jean Carroll and ordering him to pay $5 million.
A 3-judge panel on the U.S. Court docket of Appeals for the Second Circuit concluded that Trump didn’t sufficiently present any claimed errors affected his rights or warranted a brand new trial.
“On review for abuse of discretion, we conclude that Mr. Trump has not demonstrated that the district court erred in any of the challenged rulings,” the panel wrote in its unsigned opinion.
The New York jury discovered Trump liable final 12 months for sexually abusing Carroll, an recommendation columnist, in a Manhattan division retailer dressing room within the mid-Nineties and defaming her by denying her story when she got here ahead throughout Trump’s presidency.
In a separate case, a jury ordered Trump to pay $83.3 million in defamation damages for persevering with to disclaim her story. Trump remains to be interesting that verdict.
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