April 21, 2023
A Second Circuit panel on Friday unanimously remanded a defamation suit against former U.S. President Donald Trump to New York federal court, citing a recent D.C. Court of Appeals finding that a key question in the case must be decided by a jury.
April 13, 2023
The full Washington, D.C., Court of Appeals ruled Thursday it doesn't have authority to decide whether former President Donald Trump is immune from writer E. Jean Carroll's defamation lawsuit, explaining district law requires a jury to determine if he's shielded by acting within the scope of his duties as president.
October 25, 2022
The D.C. Court of Appeals agreed Tuesday to the Second Circuit's request to analyze whether a set of former President Donald Trump's controversial statements denying rape accusations were made within the scope of his employment as president, potentially entitling him to immunity from a writer's defamation lawsuit.
September 27, 2022
The Second Circuit handed former President Donald Trump a partial win Tuesday, ruling the 45th president was a U.S. employee — potentially entitling him to immunity from a writer's defamation lawsuit — and asked the D.C. Court of Appeals to analyze whether Trump's controversial statements were made within the scope of his employment.
February 22, 2022
A Manhattan federal judge repeatedly lectured Donald Trump's attorneys on federal procedure Tuesday and challenged them to explain why it was not futile for them to seek protection from E. Jean Carroll's defamation case under an updated state law barring frivolous lawsuits.
December 03, 2021
Attorneys for the U.S. Department of Justice and Donald Trump on Friday urged the Second Circuit to find that the former president was acting within the scope of his office when he made allegedly defamatory remarks about a writer who accused him of rape.
June 08, 2021
The U.S. Department of Justice has maintained its defense of Donald Trump in a defamation suit brought by a woman who accused him of rape, the latest in a series of controversial decisions by the DOJ to adhere to the prior administration's positions on cases implicating the former president.