It would appear that Donald Trump’s lawyer Alina Habba is out of E. Jean Carroll’s defamation case against the former president … sort of. As with every other procedural aspect of this case, it’s substantially factual, and seems all but guaranteed to piss off Judge Lewis Kaplan. And he was already pretty pissed!
To recap: In 2019, advice columnist E. Jean Carroll alleged that Trump raped her in a New York department store decades earlier. Trump immediately branded Carroll a liar and implied she was too ugly to rape — an allegation slightly undercut when he examined a picture of…
James Trusty, attorney for Donald Trump, appears on “Meet the Press” in Washington, DC, April 9, 2023.
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An attorney who quit the team defending Donald Trump in the criminal classified documents case said Friday he would no longer represent the former president in a separate defamation lawsuit against CNN.
The lawyer, Jim Trusty, said in a court filing that his request to withdraw from the $475 million civil suit “is based upon irreconcilable differences” with Trump.
“Counsel can no longer effectively and properly represent Plaintiff,” Trusty wrote in the filing in US District Court in Fort…
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Chris Cuomo won a new battle in his fight with CNN on Thursday, as a judge agreed to temporarily halt arbitration proceedings after Cuomo claimed the arbitrator tasked with settling his beef with the network being biased against him.
New York Supreme Court Justice Andrea Masley ruled that Cuomo’s arbitration would be stayed until at least July 6 so that the mediation firm JAMS could argue why its arbitrator, Stephen P. Sonnenberg, should remain on the case. Cuomo had asked the New York Supreme Court on Thursday to remove Sonnenberg from the former CNN star’s multimillion-dollar lawsuit against…
Musician Ed Sheeran was in Manhattan federal court Tuesday as a copyright infringement trial got underway involving alleged similarities between his Grammy-winning song “Thinking Out Loud” and the Marvin Gaye classic “Let’s Get It On.”
Sheeran, seated in a dark suit and tie at the defense table, listened to the opening statements in the case, which was brought forth by the heirs to “Let’s Get It On” co-writer Ed Townsend.
“If you remember nothing else about this trial, about this case, simply remember it is about giving credit where credit is due,” said renowned civil rights attorney Benjamin Crump, who…
DoNotPay CEO Joshua Browder says claims have ‘no merit’
An AI-powered ‘robot lawyer’ that helps consumers fight parking tickets and other charges is facing a lawsuit over claims that don’t have the correct legal standing to practice law.
Filed earlier this month in the San Francisco County Superior Court, the claim alleges DoNotPay is “not actually a robot”, “does not have a law degree” and is “not barred in any jurisdiction”.
The action is being brought by US law firm Edelson on behalf of Jonathan Faridian, who claims he used the app to draft various legal documents including a small…