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dalton99a

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Thu Nov 24, 2022, 12:07 PM Nov 2022

E. Jean Carroll sues Trump for battery and defamation

https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/24/politics/e-jean-carroll-trump-battery-defamation-lawsuit/index.html

E. Jean Carroll sues Trump for battery and defamation as lookback window for adult sex abuse survivors’ suits opens in New York
By Kara Scannell, CNN
Published 10:14 AM EST, Thu November 24, 2022

CNN — Ex-magazine columnist E. Jean Carroll sued former President Donald Trump for battery and defamation under a new New York law that allows adults alleging sexual assault to bring claims years after the attack.

Carroll filed the lawsuit Thursday, the first day that civil lawsuits can be brought under the new law, the Adult Survivors Act, which gives adults a one-year window to file a claim.

The lawsuit is the second Carroll has brought against Trump, but the first to seek to hold him accountable for battery for allegedly raping Carroll in the dressing room of a New York department store in the mid-1990s. The lawsuit also alleges a new defamation claim based on statements Trump made last month.

Carroll is asking a judge to order Trump to retract his defamatory statements and award compensatory, punitive and exemplary damages in an amount to be determined at trial.
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E. Jean Carroll sues Trump for battery and defamation (Original Post) dalton99a Nov 2022 OP
Maintain the attack on all fronts. jaxexpat Nov 2022 #1
Go, EJC! Nt spooky3 Nov 2022 #2
I truly hope she prevails this time Bayard Nov 2022 #3
Flood of lawsuits expected as window opens for adult survivors to sue in New York for sexual abuse LetMyPeopleVote Nov 2022 #4
Besides justice and cash, Ms CARROLL deserves honorifics. UTUSN Nov 2022 #5

LetMyPeopleVote

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4. Flood of lawsuits expected as window opens for adult survivors to sue in New York for sexual abuse
Thu Nov 24, 2022, 01:03 PM
Nov 2022

This makes me smile. These victims need to be able to get some justice



https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/24/us/new-york-adult-survivors-act/index.html?utm_medium=social&utm_source=twCNN&utm_term=link&utm_content=2022-11-24T12%3A05%3A58

Adult survivors of sexual abuse now can sue their abusers in New York – even if the statute of limitations on their claims has expired – under a state law that goes into effect Thursday.

The new law gives adult survivors of sexual assault one year to file lawsuits against their perpetrators. It also allows people who were sexually assaulted at work or in the care of an institution like a hospital or jail to sue that entity, said attorney Doug Wigdor, who helped push for the law.

“I think there will be some very interesting cases that come about in the employment cases where powerful men, who were supervising women or overseeing women, sexually assaulted them and they will be able to hold their perpetrator accountable but also their employers,” said Wigdor, who represented women who testified against movie mogul Harvey Weinstein, whose convictions in New York for rape and criminal sex act convictions were upheld this year.

One suit filed early Thursday under the new law aims to hold former President Donald Trump accountable for allegedly raping then-magazine columnist E. Jean Carroll in the mid-1990s. Trump has denied the claims.

The new window to sue in New York gives adult sexual assault survivors who may not have been able to process what happened to them more time to seek recourse, said Jane Manning, a former sex crimes prosecutor and now head of the Women’s Equal Justice Project in the state.

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