By bringing the case to an end, the judges left the decisions of the lower court in place to dismiss her case. The 9th U.S. Court of Appeals in San Francisco last year agreed with a federal judge in Los Angeles who ruled in 2018 that Trump’s remarks were not defamatory and protected by the U.S. Constitution’s first amendment to free speech.
‘The ruling confirms what we have been saying throughout: that Stormy Daniels’ lawsuit against the president was frivolous and sanctional, “Said Trump’s attorney, Charles Harder.
Clark Brewster, Daniels ‘lawyer, said he expected the judges to handle the case because’confusion and uncertaintyIn lower courts on the legal issue presented.
Daniels het said she had a sexual encounter with Trump on a Lake Tahoe hotel in 2006 – the year after he married his third wife Melania and more than a decade before the businessman-politician became president.
Trump denies sexual encounter.
Daniels said that in 2011 an unknown man killed her and her baby daughter in a Las Vegas parking lot and her threatened after agreeing in a media interview to talk about her experience with Trump.
Daniels said the man ‘leaned over and looked at my daughter and said,’ This is a beautiful little girl. It would be a shame if something happened to her mother. ”
In 2018, more than a year after Trump became president, she released a sketch of the man. Trump responded on Twitter to the release of the sketch and wrote.
He wrote: “A sketch years later about a non-existent man. An overall job to play the Fake News Media for Fools (but they know it)! ”
Daniels sued Trump in federal court alleges defamation, and says his comments convey his belief that she is a liar.
Her lawyers said the judge was wrong to dismiss the lawsuit under a Texas law that could allow the freedom of justice to be resolved soon. Trump was also awarded $ 292,000 in legal fees and $ 1,000 in sanctions.
Daniels was previously represented by attorney Michael Avenatti, who was later charged in three separate cases on charges of defrauding several clients, including Daniels, for the Internal Revenue Service and trying to blackmail Nike Ing. In February 2020 he was convicted in Nike case.
Trump also faces separate libel cases in connection with alleged sexual assaults, which he both denied, brought by two women – E. Jean Carroll, a former author of the magazine Elle, and Summer Zervos, a 2005 participant in his former TV show “The apprentice. ”