Why Trump Sexual Abuse Verdict May Be Hard To Replicate

Abstract

Writer E. Jean Carroll recently prevailed in her civil suit against former President Donald Trump for battery and defamation after a two-week trial.

On May 9, the jury took only three hours to return a unanimous verdict in Carroll's favor, finding that Trump sexually abused Carroll in the mid-1990s at a Bergdorf Goodman dressing room, and then defamed her in 2022 when he denied her allegations after she went public with them in her 2019 book.

The jury awarded Carroll $5 million in damages, mostly in compensatory rather than punitive damages.

Document Type

Op-ed

Publication Date

5-18-2023

Source Publication

Law360

Disciplines

Law

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