Former President Donald Trump suffered a major legal blow on Thursday in his ongoing saga involving E. Jean Carroll.
Judge Lewis Kaplan ruled against Trump’s attempts for a new trial in the $80 million defamation verdict for E. Jean Carroll.
In the ruling, Judge Kaplan wrote. “Contrary to the defendant’s arguments, Ms. Carroll’s compensatory damages were not awarded solely for her emotional distress; they were not for garden variety harms; and they were not excessive, for all of the reasons stated in Ms. Carroll’s opposition brief.”
“In sum, an award of $11 million in reputational and $7.3 million in non-reputational compensatory damages is far from a historical anomaly in New York, before even considering the unique scale of the defamation at hand,” the ruling said, “Thus, the compensatory damages awards were not excessive as a matter of New York law.”
This is a developing story that will be updated as more information becomes available.
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