Supreme Court denies review in one of Trump’s E. Jean Carroll appeals
The Supreme Court declined to review President Donald Trump’s appeal in one of the cases in which writer E. Jean Carroll won a multimillion-dollar jury award against him.
The court’s action Monday concerned the $5 million in damages awarded by a New York jury that found the president abused and defamed Carroll, who had accused him of sexually assaulting her decades ago in the dressing room of a luxury department store.
The president argued that his appeal presented important legal issues regarding evidence. He complained that the trial judge wrongly allowed, among other things, the infamous “Access Hollywood” tape in which he bragged about grabbing women by their genitals. He said the New York-based federal appeals court’s approval of the tape’s admission conflicted with how other federal appeals courts handle evidentiary issues.
Carroll opposed review, writing that Trump’s “entire petition” to the justices was based on the “misstatement of fact” that she falsely accused him of sexual assault. And she argued that Trump failed to raise any legal issues warranting the court’s attention.
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Jordan Rubin is the Deadline: Legal Blog writer. He was a prosecutor for the New York County District Attorney’s Office in Manhattan and is the author of “Bizarro,” a book about the secret war on synthetic drugs. Before he joined MS NOW, he was a legal reporter for Bloomberg Law.
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