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Federal judge rejects Stormy Daniels' request for expedited trial - ABC News

posted onApril 1, 2018
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Article snippet: Adult-film star Stormy Daniels – who is trying to get out of a nondisclosure agreement over an alleged sexual encounter with Donald Trump - might still get her day in court, but it won’t be anytime soon after a California judge Thursday rejected her request for an expedited jury trial. On Tuesday, Daniels filed legal papers asking for a jury trial within 90 days of a judge’s order and the opportunity to depose President Trump and Michael Cohen, Trump’s personal attorney who acknowledged paying the adult-film star $130,000 less than two weeks before the 2016 election. These followed Daniels’ state and federal lawsuits against Trump and Cohen for defamation and for a judgment to invalidate her nondisclosure agreement to keep quiet about her alleged affair with Trump. She claims that since Trump, under the alias ‘David Dennison,’ was a party to the agreement but never signed it, the contract was never valid. She claims that in recent months Cohen has tried to intimidate her into silence to protect Trump. In court filings, Trump and Cohen said they intend to move this dispute out of the public eye and into a private arbitration proceeding as set out in their nondisclosure agreement. Cohen claims that Daniels has already violated a temporary restraining order issued by an arbitrator in February to remain silent about Trump when she and her attorney appeared on 60 Minutes and other media outlets. U.S. District Court S. James Otero Thursday called Daniels reques... Link to the full article to read more

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