In the weeks leading up to his election, Donald Trump went on a tear against a list of women who had accused him of touching them inappropriately. One was Summer Zervos, who had been a contestant on his reality television show.

“False stories. All made up. Lies. Lies. No witnesses. No nothing. All big lies,” Trump declared at a rally after the Californian made a statement alleging that Trump kissed and groped her in a 2007 encounter at the Beverly Hills Hotel.

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By filing in New York, Allred and Wang have chosen a state where Zervos’s claims may be met with sympathy, said Robert Rabin, a Stanford law professor. A New York jury is likely to be “anti-Trump, anti-sexual misconduct and [have] generally liberal norms,” he said.

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“There are 10 or 11 other women waiting in the wings,” Rabin said.