A federal appeals court panel has upheld a jury’s verdict finding President Trump liable for sexually abusing advice columnist E. Jean Carroll and ordering him to pay $5 million in damages.
On Monday, the three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit ruled that Trump failed to demonstrate any errors in the original trial that would justify a new one. “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 stated in its unsigned opinion.
The New York jury had determined that Trump sexually abused Carroll in a Manhattan department store dressing room in the mid-1990s and defamed her by denying her allegations during his presidency.
In a related case, a jury awarded Carroll $83.3 million in defamation damages after Trump continued to deny her claims. Trump is appealing that verdict.
