President Donald Trump's application for an interim stay was denied by a New York state appeals court judge Monday evening in a defamation lawsuit filed by Summer Zervos, a former contestant on "The Apprentice" reality-television program.

Justice Dianne Renwick of the Manhattan-based New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division, First Department, also ordered that Trump's motion for reargument or leave to appeal should be expedited, setting a deadline of Dec. 2 for Zervos' response.

In 2016, Zervos publicly accused Trump of groping and kissing her without her consent during 2007, when she said she was hoping to cultivate a business relationship with the future president.

Trump repeatedly denied the accusation and said Zervos was lying, according to the complaint in her lawsuit, which was filed by Mariann Meier Wang of Cuti Hecker Wang in January 2017.

Trump is set to be deposed in the suit, though the schedule for his deposition has been repeatedly delayed. At the beginning of November, Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Jennifer Schecter ordered that by the end of the month, Trump must provide four potential deposition dates on or before Jan. 31.

In Monday's stay application, the president's lawyers at Kasowitz Benson Torres echoed arguments from other cases involving Trump.

"A stay is necessary given the novel and important Constitutional issues involved, the special considerations due the President's request for interlocutory appeals and to prevent irreparable harm," they wrote.

An April motion for a stay was denied in the First Department in May, they noted, arguing that circumstances have evolved since then.

"This was prior to this Court's 3-2 split decision, the long discovery hiatus in the trial court, and the stays granted to the President in similar cases by this Court and the United States Courts of Appeal for the Second, Fourth and D.C. Circuits," they wrote.

A Kasowitz Benson Torres spokeswoman responded with a statement.

"We are pleased that Justice Renwick of the First Department put the President's motion for reargument or leave to appeal on an expedited schedule," the spokeswoman said.

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