High court declines to hear Trump's effort to overturn Carroll verdict
by Danielle Haynes · UPIJune 29 (UPI) -- The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday refused to hear President Donald Trump's request for the panel to overturn a ruling that found him liable for sexually abusing and defaming writer E. Jean Carroll.
Trump sought to have his $5 million civil penalty tossed, but the high court's decision Monday leaves that in place, along with a separate $83.3 million in compensatory and punitive damages she was awarded for defamation.
A jury awarded the damages in 2023 after finding him liable for sexually abusing Carroll in a Manhattan department store dressing room in the 1990s and for defaming her by denying the allegations in 2019.
An appeals court also upheld the verdict in 2024. The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said Trump's lawyers failed to show any errors in the ruling that would lead to a new trial.
Trump has denied Carroll's allegations since she first made them and called the $5 million judgment excessive.
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