E. Jean Carroll sues Trump for battery and defamation

[brooklynite]

Source: CNN

[div class"excerpt"] Ex-magazine columnist E. Jean Carroll sued former President Donald Trump for battery and defamation under a new New York law that allows adults alleging sexual assault to bring claims years after the attack.

Carroll filed the lawsuit Thursday, the first day that civil lawsuits can be brought under the new law, the Adult Survivors Act, which gives adults a one-year window to file a claim.

The lawsuit is the second Carroll has brought against Trump, but the first to seek to hold him accountable for battery for allegedly raping Carroll in the dressing room of a New York department store in the mid-1990s. The lawsuit also alleges a new defamation claim based on statements Trump made last month.

Carroll is asking a judge to order Trump to retract his defamatory statements and award compensatory, punitive and exemplary damages in an amount to be determined at trial.

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/24/politics/e-jean-carroll-trump-battery-defamation-lawsuit/index.html

[Botany]

1. If as Donny has said that he didn't "do it" all he needs to do is submit a DNA sample.

N.Y. state will be very expensive for TFG between Ms. Carrol's suit, A.G. James actions,
the IRS, either the southern district of N.Y. (feds?), and the Manhattan's D.A. office.

[cstanleytech]

2. When was the law passed though?

If after said assault then I do wonder if it will get very far as I was under the impression that generally people cannot be charged or held liable for something that took place before said law was passed.

[brooklynite]

3. No, sexual assault was always against the law...

The only thing that changes was the statute of limitations

[cstanleytech]

5. Well, yes I meant that though there are some instances where you cannot be charged for

something that you did in the past that is now illegal where you live.
Abortion for example used to not be illegal in this entire country (before the assholes on SCOTUS threw it under the bus because of their own bias) but now you can be arrested for it in some states however the states cannot go after someone for something they did in the past.

[brooklynite]

6. Sexual assault WAS illegal when this allegedly happened.

The question is how long should you have to take action?

[Farmer-Rick]

7. Your analogy doesn't work

At no time has sexual assault been legal. Where as abortion has been, and still is, legal in many parts of the US and in the entire US in the last 50 years.

Abortion is about control of the reproductive process and not about violently hurting a person. Forced birthers are about taking away a woman's free will to choose to have a baby or to remain pregnant against their will.

There may have been very poor enforcement and prosecution of sexual assault but at no time has any state come out and declared sexual assault was legal.

Even in the case of husbands sexually assaulting their wives it was about "if" it was considered sexual assault and Never about making sexual assault legal.

I see where you could correlate the two because both forced birth and sexual assault takes away a person free will and right to choose how to use their body. But from a legal standpoint the two laws don't have the same kind of history or statute of limitations. And never really had. Even in the 1800 they didn't got hunting down women who may have had abortions years ago. Only the Texas law has ever tried to do that.

[Evolve Dammit]

4. Are folks catching on how justice delayed is justice denied? Hope she has the DNA, and even then??

[Farmer-Rick]

8. I want Carroll for Attorney General or as a prosecutor in NY or Miami

She seems to be the only person who refuses to back off from holding Trump accountable.

She is a very admirable person.