A jury's conclusion that President Trump should pay writer E. Jean Carroll more than $83 million in damages for defamation was "fair and reasonable," a federal appeals court panel ruled Monday.

"We hold that the district court did not err in any of the challenged rulings and that the jury's duly rendered damages awards were reasonable in light of the extraordinary and egregious facts of this case," three judges on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit wrote in a unanimous opinion .

The decision is the latest defeat for Mr. Trump in a case that dates back to 2019, when Carroll first went public with allegations that he sexually assaulted her in a department store decades earlier.

Roberta Kaplan, an attorney for Carroll, lauded the decision, saying the appeals panel conclude

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