Trump, DOJ ask Supreme Court to toss $83.3M defamation award to E. Jean Carroll
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Source: CNBC
Published: 2026-07-29 08:36 UTC+10:00
Section: General
Factuality Score: 100
Opinion Category: Neutral
Topics: Crime & Justice, Justice, Law & Courts, Labour & Workers, US Politics, Crime & Justice
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President Donald Trump and the Department of Justice on Tuesday separately asked the Supreme Court to overturn a civil court verdict that ordered him to pay the writer E. Jean Carroll $83.3 million for defaming her while denying her claim that he sexually assaulted her in a New York department store dressing room in the mid-1990s.
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