For Trump, a Blizzard of Court Action Is Just Another Monday – The New York Times
Trump-Carroll Defamation Trial
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A lawyer for E. Jean Carroll suggested she could sue the former president again, and his lawyers filed a last-ditch request to delay his upcoming Manhattan criminal trial.
Benjamin Weiser, Ben Protess and
For anyone but Donald J. Trump, Monday’s legal docket would have induced dizziness.
In the morning, a lawyer for the writer E. Jean Carroll suggested she might sue Mr. Trump for defamation for a third time. By lunch, it emerged that Mr. Trump’s lawyers had mounted a last-ditch effort to delay his upcoming criminal trial in Manhattan. And by evening, the New York attorney general asked an appeals court to maintain a $454 million judgment against Mr. Trump in yet another case.
It was a flurry of legal activity that, in a single day, demonstrated the remarkable breadth of Mr. Trump’s legal entanglements.
He is not only standing trial this month on criminal charges — making him the first former American president to face prosecution — but is also fighting three other criminal cases and several civil lawsuits, all at a time when he is poised to lock up the Republican presidential nomination. Even for a man who is no stranger to legal woes, this is an unparalleled situation.
Ms. Carroll’s lawyer raised the prospect of a new lawsuit after Mr. Trump in recent days repeatedly lashed out at her, using the same kind of disparaging language that led to an $83.3 million judgment against him in January.
“The statute of limitations for defamation in most jurisdictions is between one and three years,” Roberta A. Kaplan, Ms. Carroll’s lawyer, said in a statement Monday morning. “As we said after the last jury verdict, we continue to monitor every statement that Donald Trump makes about our client.”
In a separate court filing, Ms. Kaplan told the federal judge overseeing the case that she and Mr. Trump’s lawyers had reached an agreement on the details of a proposed $91.6 million bond that Mr. Trump recently posted.
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