Overview

• An appeals panel in Manhattan unanimously affirmed the jury’s 2024 verdict in E. Jean Carroll’s favor.
• The court concluded the trial judge made no errors and called the jury’s damages award “just and reasonable.”
• Trump’s bid to extend a 2024 Supreme Court immunity ruling to his 2019 statements was rejected as unsupported.
• The award comprises $65 million in punitive damages and $18.3 million in compensatory damages based on a finding of actual malice.
• A separate $5 million judgment for sexual abuse and related defamation was previously upheld by another Second Circuit panel.