Michael Avenatti, the plain-speaking attorney for porn star Stormy Daniels, won’t have to end his publicity drive quite yet, a federal judge said on Friday.
Attorneys for Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump’s preceding lawyer and fixer, filed a restraining order application Thursday soliciting to bar Avenatti from speaking to the press, citing Avenatti’s “seemingly unslakable thirst for publicity.”
Cohen’s attorneys cited more than 400 of Avenatti’s tweets and a “lowest” of 121 television appearances in their restraining order application.
Avenatti is drawing Daniels in her suit against Cohen and Trump seeking to void a $130,000 hush treaty that was designed to prevent her from speaking about her alleged concern with Trump.
In delaying the emergency request, U.S. District Judge James Otero mean Cohen failed to show that Avenatti was causing “immediate, irreparable mischief.”
Otero gave Avenatti another week to submit a response.
“Mr. Avenatti either stresses to respect and observe the Code of Professional Conduct or remove himself from this patient,” Cohen’s attorney Brent Blakely said in a statement.
Avenatti posted Otero’s settle on Twitter Friday afternoon after the ruling was filed.
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Avenatti did not instantaneously respond to a request for comment from CNBC.