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Judge Lewis A. Kaplan instructed jurors on legal definitions and possible verdicts — including rape, sexual abuse and forcible touching — but the jury found Donald Trump liable for sexual abuse, not r...
The trial judge in the E. Jean Carroll civil case, Judge Lewis A. Kaplan, did not say Carroll lacked enough evidence to charge Donald Trump criminally; the proceedings were civil, not criminal, and ju...
Judge Lewis A. Kaplan repeatedly rejected efforts to dismiss Virginia Giuffre’s civil claims tied to Jeffrey Epstein and Prince Andrew, stressing that the and whether it barred third-party suits . Kap...
The core dispute in court was whether the between and —which used broad release language covering “second parties” and “any other person or entity who could have been included as a potential defendant...
’s January 2022 motion to dismiss ’s civil lawsuit in a detailed written opinion, ruling the complaint was legally sufficient, rejecting the defense’s reliance on a as a bar to the suit, and saying ma...