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Judge strikes down Trump’s $15 billion suit against the New York Times

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"A federal judge in Tampa struck down President Donald Trump’s $15 billion defamation lawsuit against the New York Times, saying that the 85-page complaint was “decidedly improper and impermissible” under the rules governing civil proceedings in federal court."

U.S. District Judge Steven D. Merryday wrote:

“In this action, a prominent American citizen (perhaps the most prominent American citizen) alleges defamation by a prominent American newspaper publisher (perhaps the most prominent American newspaper publisher) and by several other corporate and natural persons,” he wrote. “Alleging only two simple counts of defamation, the complaint consumes eighty-five pages. Count I appears on page eighty, and Count II appears on page eighty-three.”

...the first Count appears on page eighty?

The judge said every lawyer should know that a complaint is not a “public forum for vituperation and invective” nor 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.”


 
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We need more judges like that to protect businesses against executive overreach.

Why was a Tampa judge ruling on a case against the New York Times? Possibly because filing in Florida offered a better probability of a friendlier judge.

God bless this Tampa judge, friendly to free speech, the necessity of an independent fourth estate.
 
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That rebuke was the appropriate amount of comedy that matches the comedy of the lawsuit itself.
Frankly I think these Trump lawyers, as in the past, should be sanctioned.
Normally a sanction is a black mark in the arena of jurisprudence, but in the Trump admin that's a qualification for nomination or promotion.
 
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