Judge rejects Trump’s bid to toss Central Park Five lawsuit
US President Donald Trump talks at his meeting with Democratic Congo Foreign Minister Therese Kayikwamba Wagner and Rwanda Foreign Minister Olivier Nduhungirehehe in the White House on June 27th.
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On Friday, a federal judge gave another blow to President Donald Trump’s efforts to open a case of insulting by plaintiffs previously known as Central Park Five.
US Regional Judge Wendy Panetlestone in question Pennsylvania’s defendants, designed to protect the protected speeches, is not valid in the Federal Court, which is designed to protect from cases aimed at protected, and rejects Trump’s movement to reject the case.
Beetlestone, a 13-page filing “The only issue in front of the court, the plaintiffs’ slander, false light and deliberate emotional distress claims (” IIed “) (” IID “) (” IID “), Pennsylvania’s Public Participation Regulation against the Uniform Public Expression Protection Law, which is known as anti-strategic lawsuits can not survive.”
“Pennsylvania’s anti -Slapp Regulation (a state law) is not valid here in the federal court.”
Five men who are so -called false prisoners as young people Central Park five The Jogger rape case filed a lawsuit against Trump, accusing the then presidential candidate of slander.
They showed a series of statements made by Trump’s former Vice President Kamala Harris during the September 10 Presidential debate, and accused him of saying that he had misrepresented someone and was found guilty of crime.
“These statements are clearly wrong,” they opened against Trump.
Five men – Yusef Salaam, Raymond Santana, Kevin Richardson, Antron McCray and Korey Wise – a white woman has been sentenced to prison for rape and attack for a white woman, and then they were cleared and undertaken.
Trump tried to reject an insult against him, but he was not successful.
Judge Beet in April He also threw the movement of Trump to reject the case against him in a different file.
