August 12, 2024
Trailblazing litigator Roberta Kaplan will keep E. Jean Carroll as a client after leaving Hecker Fink LLP amid claims she fostered a hostile work environment at the firm she co-founded, but her former colleagues still want a cut of the $83 million verdict Kaplan recently won for Carroll in a defamation lawsuit against former President Donald Trump.
July 01, 2024
A high court ruling over whether bump stocks can be considered machine guns under a federal agency's rule banning the devices and a huge railroad settlement over a Norfolk Southern derailment disaster are among Law360's top personal injury and medical malpractice cases for the first six months of 2024.
April 25, 2024
Former President Donald Trump was denied a bid Thursday to get a new trial or to overturn a Manhattan federal jury's $83 million defamation verdict awarded to columnist E. Jean Carroll stemming from her sexual assault claims against Trump.
March 08, 2024
Chubb has written Donald Trump a $91.6 million bond so the former president can avoid paying writer E. Jean Carroll $83 million while he appeals a Manhattan federal jury's defamation verdict, according to Friday court filings.
March 07, 2024
A New York federal judge refused to hold off on former President Donald Trump's $83.3 million judgment he owes E. Jean Carroll after losing a defamation trial, noting in a Thursday order that "Mr. Trump's current situation is a result of his own dilatory actions."
March 05, 2024
Former President Donald Trump on Tuesday asked a New York federal judge for a new trial after a jury held he must pay $83.3 million for calling writer E. Jean Carroll a liar in response to her sexual abuse allegations, saying the jury received erroneous instructions and the damages are excessive.
February 29, 2024
Writer E. Jean Carroll urged a New York federal judge on Thursday to reject Donald Trump's effort to pause enforcement of an $83.3 million award in her defamation suit, saying the former president is asking the court to trust that the "least trustworthy of borrowers" is good for the money.
February 23, 2024
Donald Trump has asked a New York federal judge to hold off on forcing him to pay the $83.3 million he owes writer E. Jean Carroll for calling her a liar, a request that comes the same day he was hit with a $454 million bill in a separate case.
January 30, 2024
In an abrupt about-face, Donald Trump lawyer Alina Habba on Tuesday dropped claims she made a day earlier raising alarms over a potential conflict involving the New York federal judge who oversaw writer E. Jean Carroll's defamation trials that resulted in $88 million in verdicts — claims that outside experts called flimsy.
January 26, 2024
A Manhattan federal jury held Friday that Donald Trump must pay $83.3 million for calling writer E. Jean Carroll a liar in response to her sexual abuse allegations in 2019, on top of $5 million the former president was ordered to pay Carroll in an earlier trial.