Giuliani Attorneys Ask to Quit $146 Million Defamation Suit (1)

Rudolph Giuliani’s lawyers are walking away from the former New York City mayor’s legal battle against a $146 million defamation judgment held by two 2020 election workers.

Kenneth A. Caruso and David Labkowski filed motions Wednesday to withdraw as Giuliani’s attorneys in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York. Caruso cited professional rules that allow a lawyer to withdraw when a “client insists upon taking action with which the lawyer has a fundamental disagreement.”

Their request to remove themselves from the case comes about a week after Judge Lewis J. Liman ordered Giuliani to turn over ...