The New York judge who oversaw E. Jean Carroll’s defamation lawsuit against former President Donald Trump rejected the former president’s request to delay paying Carroll more than $80 million in damages, according to a Sunday court filing.
Trump’s lawyer, Alina Habba, requested an “administrative stay” on Friday to pause Trump’s required payments to Carroll after he made defaming statements against the former writer in 2019.
Kaplan ruled on Sunday he would not grant a pause without allowing Carroll and her team to respond and gave them until Thursday at 5 p.m. to respond to Trump’s motion.
In Habba’s Friday motion, she asked Kaplan to stay the motion for at least 30 days until Trump’s post-trial motions were resolved, claiming there was a “strong probability” the verdict could be reduced or eliminated on appeal.
$83.3 million. That’s how much Trump was ordered to pay Carroll by a New York civil jury in January after he defamed Carroll. The damages include $65 million in punitive damages and $18.3 million in compensatory damages.
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