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A New York state appeals court judge put the civil fraud trial involving the New York attorney general's office and Donald Trump and his company on temporary hold after a last-minute legal challenge by the former president's legal team.

Justice David Friedman, a judge on the state's intermediate appellate court, ordered a potential postponement of the non-jury trial, which had been scheduled to start on 2 October. The judge granted an interim stay of the trial and ordered the full appeals court to consider the lawsuit on an expedited basis.

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