What appeals or legal challenges to E. Jean Carroll's judgments remain pending after December 2025?

1. What Trump has formally asked the courts to do — Supreme Court petitions

Trump’s legal team asked the U.S. Supreme Court to review the $5 million civil verdict that found him liable for sexually abusing and defaming Carroll; the petition to the high court was filed with a Nov. 10, 2025 deadline and the case had not yet been formally docketed in available reports ^{[1] [3]}. Multiple outlets describe the filing as challenging evidentiary rulings at trial — for example, allowing testimony from two other women and playing the “Access Hollywood” tape — and seeking reversal of the lower-court rulings ^{[1] [2]}.

2. The second, larger judgment and its appellate posture

Separately, a jury awarded Carroll $83.3 million for repeated defamatory statements; a three-judge panel of the Second Circuit affirmed that award and described the damages as “fair and reasonable,” and later coverage says the appeals court upheld that $83.3 million judgment as well ^{[4] [5]}. Reporting indicates Trump’s lawyers raised presidential-immunity arguments and other challenges that the appeals court rejected — and that the president is likely to seek Supreme Court review of that judgment as well ^{[4] [6]}.

3. What the appeals courts have already done (and what that means procedurally)

The Second Circuit formally affirmed the $5 million verdict and issued a mandate that started the clock for a Supreme Court petition; the same circuit declined Trump’s request for an en banc rehearing earlier in 2025 ^{[7] [8]}. For the $83.3 million defamation award, a Second Circuit panel issued a comprehensive opinion upholding the verdict and rejected the immunity arguments, leaving the likely next step as a petition for certiorari to the Supreme Court ^{[4] [9]}.

4. What the Supreme Court step would require and its practical effect

There is no automatic right to Supreme Court review; the Court must grant certiorari with the votes of at least four justices ^[1]. If the high court takes either appeal, its ruling could either leave the judgments intact or materially narrow or overturn them — a decision that could also affect the other Carroll judgment depending on the legal issues the justices choose to reach ^{[10] [6]}.

5. What the parties are arguing and the competing frames

Trump’s petition emphasizes alleged “indefensible evidentiary rulings” and claims that trial Judge Lewis Kaplan improperly admitted propensity evidence and inflammatory material such as the Access Hollywood tape ^{[6] [1]}. The Carroll side and appellate panels counter that the trial rulings were proper and that the appellate record supports the jury’s findings and damages awards, describing Trump’s conduct as “extraordinary” and the damages as reasonable given the facts ^{[4] [5]}.

6. Limits of current reporting and unanswered questions

Available sources do not mention whether the Supreme Court has docketed, granted, or denied the petitions as of the latest articles; they note only that Trump filed for review and that the petitions had not been formally docketed in some accounts ^{[3] [1]}. Available sources do not mention other collateral mechanisms — such as post-judgment enforcement actions, stays of execution, bond disputes beyond what was previously litigated, or any settlement negotiations after November 2025 ^{[8] [7]}.

7. What to watch next — timeline and signals

Watch for the Supreme Court to decide whether to grant review (a decision commonly announced within months of a petition, although timing varies); if the Court takes the case it will set briefing and argument schedules, and if it declines review the appellate rulings remain final and enforceable ^{[1] [10]}. Also monitor any further filings about bonds, stays, or enforcement in the district court record — those are the usual practical steps parties take while seeking Supreme Court review, though such filings are not documented in the available reporting ^{[8] [7]}.

Summary judgment: the public record in these sources shows active Supreme Court petitions and final appellate affirmances of both the $5 million and $83.3 million awards, but no resolution from the Supreme Court and no other documented post‑December 2025 challenges in the provided reporting ^{[1] [4] [7]}.