On Thursday, former president Donald Trump made it known that he intended to fight the $5 million jury judgement from this week finding him responsible for sexually assaulting and defaming author E. Jean Carroll.
The amount and "all adverse orders, rulings, decrees, decisions, opinions, memoranda, conclusions or findings" from U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan, who presided over the civil trial, were both subject to appeal, according to a filing by Trump's lawyer Joe Tacopina in federal court in Manhattan.
On social media on Wednesday, Trump attacked Kaplan, calling the "Clinton appointed Judge" a "terrible person" who is "completely biased."
The decision made on Tuesday was formally noted in the court calendar on Thursday.
In a statement on Thursday, Tacopina stated that the appeals court has already overruled Kaplan in the case and that "we are confident it will be twice after this appeal is heard."
An inquiry for comment was not immediately answered by Carroll's 79-year-old attorney.
Carroll's lawsuit claimed that Trump, 76, raped her in a Manhattan department store dressing room in the mid-1990s and then defamed her in a statement by calling her allegation a "complete con job."
Although the jury did not find Trump guilty of rape, it did find him guilty of defamation and sexual assault, which was a component of her battery claim.
The judgment hasn't stopped Trump from disparaging Carroll, a former advice columnist for Elle magazine. In a Wednesday night CNN town hall, he called her a "whack job" with a "made-up story."
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