In closing the case, the judges left the decisions of lower courts on the spot and she threw her suit away. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco last year agreed with a Los Angeles-based federal judge who ruled in 2018 that Trump’s comments were not defamatory and were protected by the First Amendment’s guarantee of free speech. US Constitution.
The ruling confirms what we’ve been saying all along: that Stormy Daniels’ lawsuit was against the president frivolous and punishable, ”Said Trump’s attorney, Charles Harder.
Clark Brewster, Daniels’ attorney, said he expected the judges to take the case because “confusion and uncertaintyIn lower courts on the legal issue presented.
Daniels has said she had a sexual encounter with Trump in a Lake Tahoe hotel in 2006 – the year after he married his third wife Melania and more than a decade before the businessman turned politician became president.
Trump has denied the sexual encounter
Daniels has said that in 2011, an unknown man approached her and her baby daughter in a Las Vegas parking lot and threatened her after agreeing to talk about her experience with Trump in a media interview.
Daniels said the man “leaned over, looked at my daughter and said, ‘That’s a lovely little girl. It would be a shame if something were to happen to her mother. ”
In 2018, more than a year after Trump became president, she released a sketch of the man. Trump responded on Twitter to the release of the sketch, writing.
He wrote, “Years later a sketch about one nonexistent manA total scam, playing Fake News Media for Fools (but they know)! “
Daniels sued Trump in federal court he claimed slander and said his comment expressed his belief that she was a liar.
Her attorneys have said the judge was wrong to dismiss the lawsuit under a Texas state law that allows for quick resolution for cases believed to be taxing the right to free speech. Trump also received $ 292,000 in legal fees and $ 1,000 in sanctions
Daniels was previously represented by lawyer Michael Avenatti, who was later charged in three separate cases on charges that he defrauded several clients, including Daniels, lied to the Internal Revenue Service and tried to extort Nike IncIn February 2020 he was convicted in the Nike case
Trump is also facing separate defamation lawsuits related to alleged assaults, both of which he denied, brought by two women – E. Jean Carroll, a former Elle magazine writer, and Summer Zervos, a 2005 contestant on his former reality TV show “The intern