Tag Archives: arguing

Judge blocks Trump lawyers from arguing about columnist’s rape claim at upcoming defamation trial

Judge blocks Trump lawyers from arguing about columnist’s rape claim at upcoming defamation trial

NEW YORK (AP) — A judge late Saturday said former President Donald Trump’s lawyers can’t present legal arguments to a jury assessing damages at a defamation trial on a jury’s conclusion last year that he didn’t rape a columnist in the mid-1990s. U.S. District Judge Lewis A. Kaplan made the determination in an order in advance of a Jan. 16 trial to determine defamation damages against Trump after a jury concluded Trump sexually abused columnist E. Jean Carroll but did not find evidence… Source link

Read More »

Tom Brady gets first unsportsmanlike penalty for arguing

Everyone already knew Tom Brady got away with a lot of talking to officials during a game, mostly complaining about non-calls against him.  Officials probably didn’t like hearing Brady brag publicly about how much they let him get away with.  A couple days after Brady said that he gets away with “talking smack to the refs when I don’t think I get the right call,” he got the first unsportsmanlike conduct penalty of his career, according to NBC’s Al Michaels. Los Angeles Rams linebacker Von… Source link

Read More »