![](data:image/svg+xml;charset=utf-8,<svg height="400px" width="1000px" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" version="1.1"/>)
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.”
This story is breaking and will likely be up to date.
