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Judge tosses Trump's $15B defamation suit against NYT, Penguin Random House (abcnews.go.com)
17 points by stopbulying 3 months ago | hide | past | favorite | 8 comments


> "A complaint is not a megaphone for public relations or a podium for a passionate oration at a political rally or the functional equivalent of the Hyde Park Speakers' Corner," Merryday wrote.


The judge wasn't harsh enough. Big mean words don't do anything. There should have been Sanctions or consequences for the people involved in this kind of frivolous waste of resources.


This lawsuit is over, unless Trump re-files it with an actual, normal brief. So yes, the big mean words actually did something.


No, the lawsuit could be over with any sufficient legal ruling, whether it is worded nicely or not.

I'd like more actions instead of spicy language.

Sanctions against the legal teams involved in b.s. legal motions, for example. It's not about scolding. He and his team don't seem to care about being scolded, even with big mean judge words.


In the legal biz our term of art is vexatious litigant.

Many states (including Florida) have statutes and/or rules of procedure to marshal against such personages, should one ever encounter them in the wild.


> A federal judge has tossed President Donald Trump's $15 billion defamation lawsuit against The New York Times and Penguin Random House, calling the complaint "decidedly improper and impermissible."

There is some life left in the USA. I wonder how long it will last.


SCOTUS's process seems to be to allow the process to proceed when it advantages Trump and thus give a default win, and add a facade of legitimacy.

We will see how it goes.


> said the complaint contains eighty pages of repetitive claims and praise for President Trump

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>He lambasted Trump's lawyers for forcing him to "labor through" the "superfluous" praise about Trump's show "The Apprentice," as well as the size of his real estate empire and the "historic fashion" of Trump's 2024 presidential victory.

And praise for Trump, of course.




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