Former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani leaves the New York Federal Courthouse on November 7, 2024 in New York City. Giuliani appeared in a New York City courtroom after missing the deadline to turn over assets as part of $148m defamation judgement. (Pho NEW YORK - Attorneys representing Rudy Giuliani, former New York City mayor and ally of former President Donald Trump, filed a motion Wednesday to withdraw from his defense in a high-profile $148-million defamation case in federal court.
Giuliani faces a civil lawsuit from Georgia election workers Ruby Freeman and Wandrea' Moss, who allege Giuliani defamed them with false claims about the 2020 presidential election. Kenneth Caruso, the lead counsel for Giuliani from Kenneth Caruso Law LLC, had filed the motion in the U.S.
District Court for the Southern District of New York on Wednesday, citing several reasons for seeking withdrawal. The motion, filed also on behalf of co-counsel David Labkowski of Labkowski Law P.A.
, states that the attorneys can no longer continue the representation due to "a fundamental disagreement" with Giuliani on litigation strategy, as well as his failure to cooperate, which they say has made representation "unreasonably difficult." The filing specifically references a New York Professional Rule which permits attorneys to withdraw when there is a fundamental disagreement with the client, an unwillingness by the client to present legally warranted arguments, or a lack of cooperation. Judge Lewis J.
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