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Carroll v. Trump Libel Suit: Trump's Access Hollywood Tape Admissible, as Is

other women's testimony about Trump's alleged past sexual assaults.

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Today's decision by Judge Lewis Kaplan (S.D.N.Y.) is here. There are some other details as well; read the opinion, which largely focuses on Federal Rule of Evidence 415 ("similar acts in civil cases involving sexual assault …").

Eugene Volokh is the Gary T. Schwartz Distinguished Professor of Law at UCLA and a Visiting Fellow (Senior Fellow starting May 2024) at the Hoover Institution (Stanford). Naturally, his posts here (like the opinions of the other bloggers) are his own, and not endorsed by any educational institution.