Thanks to a new New York law, E. Jean Carroll will be able to file a lawsuit against Donald Trump for allegedly raping her.
The New York Adult Survivors Act temporarily allows the filing of sexual assault lawsuit in cases where the statue of limitations have expired.
In a November 17 court filing, her lawyer said that she would file a new lawsuit against Trump on that day.
After lodging a defamation suit against the then-president in November, a long-time advice columnist for the magazine is going to file another lawsuit against him.
Insider broke down all of the pending litigation between Trump and Carroll, who are both running for president in the same year.
The excerpt from her memoir was published by New York Magazine in June.
In the excerpt, he said he ran into Trump in the fall of 1995 or the spring of 1996.
She wrote that Trump pinned her against a wall and proceeded to assault her after they got into a joke in the lingerie section. She used the word "rape" in her essay, but she didn't actually say it.
After the alleged assault, she told two friends about it. She said that the dress she wore that day was analyzed for genetic material. It's not clear from court documents if the legal team has obtained a sample of Trump's genetic material.
After her essay was published, Trump denied the allegation in a series of statements and suggested that she made the story up to sell her book.
Trump was accused of attacking her reputation by saying she made the story up.
The case took a turn when the Justice Department, headed by then Trump-appointee Attorney General Bill Barr, tried to get Trump removed from the case.
Trump was protected from being sued for his work as a public servant because he made his comments while acting as president. The DOJ continued to intervene when the Biden administration took over.
Trump's team appealed after Judge Lewis Kaplan denied the DOJ's motion to replace Trump as a defendant. The issue of federal law shielding Trump from being sued personally was kicked to the DC Court of Appeals. After hearing oral arguments in January, the court will decide if Trump can be sued.
Kaplan blocked Trump's attempt to counter the case in March, saying it appeared to be a bad faith attempt to delay the proceedings.
On November 24, Carroll's lawyers are planning to file an additional lawsuit against Trump, this time accusing him of making a false allegation on Truth Social.
Her attorneys said in a court filing on Thursday that there will be a battery claim against Trump.
The two cases should be tried together and the trial date should be pushed back from February 6 to April 10, according to the filing.
When contacted by Insider on Friday, Roberta Kaplan refused to speak. The representatives for Trump didn't reply to the request. The New York Times reported on Thursday that an attorney for Trump said the filing was inappropriate and would be taken up by the court.
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