The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday rejected former President Donald Trump's appeal of a 2023 jury verdict ordering him to pay $5 million to writer E. Jean Carroll for sexual abuse and defamation. The court upheld the lower ruling, dismissing Trump's claims that the trial was unfair.
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday dismissed former President Donald Trump's appeal in the E. Jean Carroll defamation and sexual abuse case, upholding the 2023 jury verdict ordering Trump to pay $5 million in damages.
The ruling came on a day the court rejected several high-profile appeals without oral argument. Trump had appealed the verdict on grounds that the trial had been procedurally unfair, claims the appeals court and now the Supreme Court declined to accept.
The case stems from a 2023 trial in which a Manhattan federal jury found Trump liable for sexually abusing Carroll in a Bergdorf Goodman department store dressing room in the mid-1990s, and for defaming her when she came forward publicly in 2019. The jury awarded Carroll $5 million in compensatory and punitive damages.
The Supreme Court's decision effectively ends the appeal process in federal court, though Trump faces other legal proceedings, including separate cases related to his business practices and alleged interference with the 2020 election results.
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