UPDATE 1-U.S. judge dismisses Stormy Daniels' hush-money agreement case vs Trump
Trump has denied having an affair with Daniels. Trump's former lawyer Michael Cohen has said the agreement, under which Daniels was paid $130,000, was struck to help Trump capture the White House.
U.S. District Judge James Otero in Los Angeles dismissed the lawsuit because Trump and Cohen have agreed not to enforce the nondisclosure agreement against Daniels, court documents showed. "More than a year ago when I was being threatened with a 20 million lawsuit, I asked a judge to toss out this illegal NDA. Glad I stood my ground & kept fighting," Daniels tweeted after the ruling was made public.
The nondisclosure agreement did not prevent Daniels from speaking to news media, including CBS' "60 Minutes," or releasing a memoir, "Full Disclosure." (Reporting by Brendan O'Brien in Milwaukee; Editing by Scott Malone, Peter Cooney and Richard Chang)
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