Trump had requested the decide for permission to make use of the state’s anti-SLAPP regulation as a protection to the defamation claims and to countersue Carroll and search attorneys’ charges, if profitable.
In a 25-page opinion, US District Decide Lewis Kaplan denied Trump’s movement calling it “futile.” He agreed with Carroll’s argument that Trump’s effort was “at the very least partially for a dilatory function and thus at the very least partially in unhealthy religion.”
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