Even if the president were an employee, U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan ruled, he would not have been acting within the scope of his job when he made public comments about sexual misconduct allegations leveled against him.
October 27, 2020 at 10:13 AM
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The original version of this story was published on New York Law Journal
U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan of the Southern District of New York on Tuesday rejected a motion from the federal government to substitute itself for President Donald Trump as the defendant in a defamation lawsuit, holding that Trump is not a government employee within the meaning of the Federal Tort Claims Act.
While the U.S. government could not be the defendant, the case is set to remain in federal court and will not return to Manhattan Supreme Court where it was first filed.
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