In closing the case, the judges set aside the decisions of the lower courts that launched the lawsuit. The 9th San Francisco-based U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals last year ruled a Los Angeles-based federal judge ruled in 2018 that Trump’s statements were not defamatory and were protected by the guarantee of freedom of expression of the First Amendment to the United States Constitution.
“The ruling confirms what we’ve been saying all along: Stormy Daniels’ lawsuit against the president was frivolous and punishableSaid Trump’s attorney Charles Harder.
Clark Brewster, Daniels’ lawyer, said he hoped the judges would take the case because there is “confusion and uncertainty”In the lower courts on the legal issue presented.
Daniels has done it dit he had a sexual encounter with Trump on Lake Tahoe hotel in 2006, the year after he married his third wife Melania and more than a decade before the businessman turned politician became president.
Trump has denied the sexual encounter.
Daniels said that in 2011, an unknown man approached her and her infant daughter in a house Las Vegas parking lot and threatened her after agreeing to talk about his experience with Trump in a media interview.
Daniels said the man “leaned over and looked at my daughter and said,‘ She’s a beautiful girl. It would be a shame for something to happen to his mother. “
In 2018, more than a year after Trump became president, he published a sketch of the man. Trump responded on Twitter to the release of the sketch, writing.
He wrote: “A sketch years later on one non-existent home. A totally negative job: playing Fake News Media for Fools (but they know it)! ”
Daniels sued Trump in federal court asserting defamation, saying her comment conveyed her belief that she was a liar.
His lawyers have said the judge erred in dismissing the lawsuit under a Texas state law that allows for speedy resolution of cases that are seen to weigh on the right to free speech. Trump also received $ 292,000 in legal fees and $ 1,000 in penalties.
Daniels formerly represented by attorney Michael Avenatti, who was later charged in three separate cases on charges of defrauding several clients, including Daniels, lied to the Treasury Service and attempted to extort Nike Inc. In February 2020 it was convicted in the Nike case.
Trump also faces defamation lawsuits related to alleged sexual assaults, who denied both, led by two women – E. Jean Carroll, former writer of Elle magazine, i Summer deer, a 2005 contestant on his previous reality TV show “The apprentice“.