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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Andrea Cavallier

NY appeals court rejects bid to overturn Trump’s convictions in E. Jean Carroll case

President Donald Trump has lost his latest bid to challenge a civil jury verdict holding him liable for sexually abusing writer E. Jean Carroll in the 90s and then defaming her decades later when she went public with the allegations.

On Friday the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New York declined Trump’s request for a court’s full bench to rehear his case. The decision leaves in place a December 2024 ruling by a three-judge panel upholding the 2023 jury verdict, which ordered Trump to pay Carroll $5 million in damages.

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