Alina Habba tried to get the E. Jean Carroll verdict dismissed by submitting a baseless assault on Carroll’s lawyer, Roberta Kaplan, who responded by threatening to pursue sanctions in opposition to Habba.
Habba claimed that there was a mentor-mentee relationship between the decide and Carroll’s lawyer.
Roberta Kaplan filed a letter with the judge capturing down this allegation, “We write in response to the letter submitted yesterday by Alina Habba on behalf of her client Defendant Donald J. Trump, which contains false allegations of a “mentor-mentee relationship” between Your Honor and myself courting again to the transient interval by which we overlapped at Paul, Weiss greater than thirty years in the past. As Ms. Habba properly is aware of, these allegations are totally baseless.”
Roberta Kaplan laid out why the allegations are baseless, and referred to as out Trump’s motives, “From the very start of the recently concluded trial, Donald Trump and Ms. Habba have pushed a false narrative of judicial bias so that they could
characterize any jury verdict against Trump as the product of a corrupt system. While that strategy has now moved into its post-verdict phase, it is now time for Defendant’s false and vexatious claims of bias or impropriety to stop.”
Kaplan concluded her letter by threatening to pursue sanctions in opposition to Habba, “While Ms. Habba ends her letter by characterizing this as a “troubling matter,” what is definitely troubling is each the substance and timing of her false accusations of impropriety by on the a part of E. Jean Carroll’s counsel or the Court docket. Accordingly, whereas we wished
to submit our response to Ms. Habba’s letter as quickly as attainable, we reserve all rights, together with however not restricted to the proper to hunt sanctions pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil Process 11.”
Trump is making an attempt to discredit the ruling for Carroll for political and monetary causes. Trump has so many potential civil judgments pending in opposition to him that he might face bankruptcy.
The secret is to discredit Carroll, her attorneys, the decide, and the damages award.
Donald Trump remains to be making an attempt to play politics with the courts, and the consequence may very well be sanctions for Alina Habba.
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