Appeal In Trump U Case

A former student of Trump University has said she plans to appeal the $25 million settlement reached late last year, delaying payouts for at least a year and keeping open the possibility that President Donald Trump may be forced into a public trial. A judge last month ruled that Sherri Simpson, a Florida bankruptcy lawyer who says she paid $19,000 in 2010 to learn real estate investment secrets, could not opt out of the settlement and pursue her own lawsuit. Simpson will appeal that ruling, said her attorney, Gary Friedman. “There’s going to be a lot entailed in prosecuting the appeal, but the decision of whether to file the appeal is not remotely difficult; the [judge’s] decision is clearly wrong,” Friedman told Politico.