A judge says former columnist E Jean Carroll can proceed with civil lawsuits alleging she was raped by Donald Trump in a department store 25 years ago.
The judge says Ms Carroll can proceed with lawsuits alleging she was raped by Mr Trump in a department store a quarter century ago.He was upholding a temporary New York state law letting adult victims of sexual abuse sue their abusers.A US judge on Friday rejected as "absurd" former President Donald Trump's effort to dismiss writer E Jean Carroll's lawsuit accusing him of defamation and battery after he denied raping her in the mid-1990s.
"What, if anything, actually occurred must await further proceedings if the complaint withstands the present motion." In the ruling, Mr Kaplan said the Adult Survivor's Act was similar to the Child Victims Act, another New York state law that temporarily allowed victims of sexual assaults when they were children to sue their abusers years later.
Lawyers for the former president had asked the judge to toss out the lawsuit after Mr Trump said the encounter at an upscale Manhattan department store never happened.
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