The Adult Survivors Act gives survivors a one-year window to sue their alleged abusers regardless of when the incident occurred.
Former President Trump and writer E. Jean Carroll. Photos: Eva Marie Uzcategui and Alec Tabak/New York Daily News/Tribune News Service via Getty Images
E. Jean Carroll, the author who alleges that former President Trump raped her in the mid-1990s, plans to sue him for battery under a new state law, according to court filings made public Tuesday.Carroll, who is in the middle of a high-profile defamation suit against Trump, had been unable to pursue legal action for the actual alleged assault due to the state's statute of limitations. Now the
, which gives adult survivors of sexual misconduct a one-year window to sue their abusers regardless of when the incident occurred, could give her another chance against her alleged abuser.to a New York federal judge that she will sue Trump for battery and intentional infliction of emotional distress "on the earliest possible date," which is Nov. 24.
Carroll's team has requested a deposition to question Trump under oath. He "remains unwilling to produce" any court-mandated evidence, Kaplan said. Kaplan has asked to consolidate Carroll's defamation case with her expected suit under the Adult Survivors Act.
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