The stay followed the 2nd Circuit's decision to reject a full-court rehearing of the case. Judge Denny Chin, writing for the majority, noted it was the fourth time the court had denied such a request. Three judges — Steven J. Menashi, Michael H. Park, and Debra Ann Livingston — dissented and argued the proceedings represented a "manifest miscarriage of justice," according to ABC News.
The $83 million award came from a January 2024 jury verdict. According to ABC News, jurors concluded that Carroll endured years of harassment and humiliation flowing from Trump's remarks, including death threats that left her in fear for her personal safety. A separate jury in a May 2023 trial had awarded Carroll $5 million after finding Trump liable for sexual abuse and defamation.
The allegations against Trump date to a memoir Carroll published in 2019, in which she described being sexually abused by him inside a Bergdorf Goodman dressing room sometime in the 1990s. Trump has denied all wrongdoing and has called Carroll's account a "made-up scam," according to the Los Angeles Times.
In a statement, Carroll's lawyer Roberta Kaplan said her client was "eager for this case, originally filed in 2019, to be over so that she can finally obtain justice," according to ABC News.
