U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan of the Southern District of New York on Tuesday postponed the trial date for author E. Jean Carroll’s defamation suit against former President Donald Trump until April 10, giving the District of Columbia Court of Appeals time to consider a certified question about the scope of Trump’s employment.

Carroll, who has accused Trump of raping her in a New York City department store in the 1990s, sued Trump for defamation in 2019 after he said she made up the rape claim.

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