Appeals Court Says Stormy Daniels on the Hook for Nearly $300K in Trump’s Legal Fees After Failed Defamation Lawsuit – By Aaron Keller (Law and Crime) / March 22, 2022
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals on Friday ordered porn star Stormy Daniels (whose real name is Stephanie Clifford) to pay up for nearly $300,000 in Donald Trump’s legal fees that after a failed defamation lawsuit.
The unpublished (read: nonprecedential) opinion was filed directly on the lower district court’s docket and does not, as of the time of this writing, appear on the case docket for the requisite Ninth Circuit case. Nor does the opinion yet reside on the Ninth Circuit’s website which contains recent opinions.
The terse order — barely three pages long — was unanimous. It was penned by circuit judges Sidney R. Thomas (a Clinton appointee), Kim McLane Wardlaw (also a Clinton appointee), and Jacqueline Nguyen (an Obama appointee).
