Recently in New York after the lifting of the state’s usual deadline for the Adult Survivor’s Act temporarily, write E. Jean Carroll filed legal papers electronically for sexual assault against Trump. A writer who accused former President Trump of rape filed an upgraded lawsuit against him on Thursday minutes after the new state took effect allowing victims of sexual violence to sue over attacks that occurred decades ago. She sought unspecified compensatory and punitive damages for pain and suffering, psychological harm, loss of dignity and reputation and damage caused due to it.
Responding to these allegations Trump made some serious remarks about Jean Caroll saying that “she is not my type” and that she is just trying to gain some importance only to make her book famous. These allegations have now caused Carroll to file a defamation lawsuit against Trump, but they are still tied up as the court’s judges decide whether he is protected from legal claims for comments made while he was president.
The new law has relieved many of the sex crime victims who missed the deadline associated with the statute of limitations a second chance to file a lawsuit. It is expected that hundreds of lawsuits shall be filed by women who say they were assaulted by coworkers, prison guards, etc. Carroll had been barred by state law from suing over alleged rape because of the passage of time since the alleged rape incident.
This has also given a chance even to Carroll while she has further claimed that Trump committed battery when he raped her and that he defamed her while denying the allegations against him last month.
The new law has surely given Carroll the ability to help her sidestep a potentially fatal legal flaw in her original defamation case.
As federal employees are protected from defamation claims and if the court holds that Trump’s previous disparaging comments about Carroll’s rape are part of his job duties as president it will surely be the reason to bar Carroll from suing him for those remarks. This will not cover the things did prior to becoming president.
Judge Lewis A. Kaplan, who presides over the defamation lawsuit Carroll filed three years ago, may decide to include the new claims in a trial likely to occur in the spring.
Apart from the allegations as of now, there are other claims in addition to them which as per Carroll’s won’t require many gatherings of evidence. She already submitted a copy of the original case file of new claims last week. Trump’s lawyers say that they are not sure if they will be able to represent him on new allegations.
Trump’s Lawyer did not respond to a message seeking comment on Wednesday. Attorney Michael Madaio, a lawyer for Trump, said at the hearing that the new allegations are significantly different than the original defamation lawsuit and would require “an entirely new set” of evidence gathering.
