{"id":1666,"date":"2025-09-08T14:54:26","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T14:54:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/?p=1666"},"modified":"2025-09-08T14:54:28","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T14:54:28","slug":"trump-loses-bid-to-overturn-83-3-million-judgment-in-e-jean-carroll-defamation-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/?p=1666","title":{"rendered":"Trump loses bid to overturn $83.3 million judgment in E. Jean Carroll defamation case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"RegularArticle-ArticleBody-5\" data-module=\"ArticleBody\" data-test=\"articleBody-2\" data-analytics=\"RegularArticle-articleBody-5-2\"><span class=\"HighlightShare-hidden\" style=\"top:0;left:0\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"InlineImage-imageEmbed\" id=\"ArticleBody-InlineImage-108030386\" data-test=\"InlineImage\">\n<div class=\"InlineImage-wrapper\">\n<div>Writer E. Jean Carroll arrives at the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, where former U.S. President Donald Trump will arrive to ask a federal appeals court to overturn a $5 million jury verdict finding him liable for sexually assaulting and defaming her, who accused Trump of raping her nearly three decades ago, in Manhattan, New York, U.S., September 6, 2024.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Adam Gray | Reuters<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"group\">A federal appeals court on Monday rejected President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/donald-trump\/\">Donald Trump<\/a>&#8216;s bid to overturn a jury verdict ordering him to pay $83.3 million for defaming writer E. Jean Carroll.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/storage.courtlistener.com\/recap\/gov.uscourts.ca2.e508a4b2-feae-4592-a6dc-d30f9ed35bb6\/gov.uscourts.ca2.e508a4b2-feae-4592-a6dc-d30f9ed35bb6.134.1_1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">The decision<\/a> from a trio of judges on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit upheld that verdict, which Trump argued was both excessive and invalid following a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2024\/07\/01\/donald-trump-immunity-supreme-court-ruling.html\">Supreme Court<\/a> decision that expanded his presidential immunity.<\/p>\n<p>But the appellate judges held that Trump &#8220;has failed to identify any grounds that would warrant reconsidering our prior holding on presidential immunity.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>They also ruled that a lower federal court &#8220;did not err in any of the challenged rulings and that the jury&#8217;s damages awards are fair and reasonable.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The decision came less than a week after Trump&#8217;s lawyers signaled they will soon ask the Supreme Court to overturn a jury verdict in a separate civil case Carroll had filed against the president, for which she has been awarded $5 million.<\/p>\n<p>Both cases accused Trump of defaming Carroll in statements denying her accusation that he raped her in the mid-1990s in the Manhattan department store Bergdorf Goodman.<\/p>\n<p>The White House referred CNBC to Trump&#8217;s personal lawyers in the case, who did not immediately respond to requests for comment.<\/p>\n<p><strong>This is breaking news. 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