Attorneys for former President Donald Trump and the advice columnist E. Jean Carroll on Tuesday said they believe they can agree on a new trial date for Carroll’s defamation case against Trump, but they are not on the same page regarding the second complaint Carroll plans to file against Trump later this week.
Carroll’s attorney Roberta Kaplan of Kaplan Hecker & Fink has said her client plans to sue Trump under New York’s Adult Survivors Act, which goes into effect on Thursday. The law opens a one-year lookback window during which adult survivors of sexual assault can sue their alleged abusers, even if statutes of limitations would otherwise bar the cases.
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