A federal appeals court has affirmed a jury’s $5 million sexual abuse and defamation verdict against Donald Trump, rejecting the president-elect’s effort for a new trial in the case brought by writer E.

The president-elect unsuccessfully argued that jurors in his civil defamation and sexual abuse trial were erroneously shown evidence of other sexual assault charges, including the infamous 2005 Access Hollywood tape.

A three-judge panel at the Second Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan ruled Monday that Judge Lewis Kaplan didn’t get it wrong when he allowed two other women accusing Donald Trump of

A federal appeals court has upheld a jury’s finding in a civil case that Donald Trump sexually abused a columnist in a department store dressing room in the mid-1990s.

A federal appeals court upheld a $5 million verdict favoring E. Jean Carroll, affirming findings that Donald Trump defamed and sexually abused her. The court rejected Trump's claims of trial errors, citing a pattern of misconduct supported by witness testimony and evidence,

The court roundly rejected claims by Trump that the judge who presided over the trial erred in a series of decisions.

A jury last year found that Carroll was sexually abused by Trump at a Manhattan department store in 1996 and that he defamed her in later statements.

Donald Trump's appeal has been rejected in the ongoing sexual abuse and defamation case filed by E. Jean Carroll. The court's decision upholds the previous ruling, continuing the legal battle over the allegations against the former president.