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Court to Trump - TLDR Case Tossed Out [1]
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Date: 2025-09-19
The Trump suit against the New York Times was just tossed out in a truly embarrassing manner, for Trump that is.
The tenor of the judge’s response drips with TLDR overtones. It also slaps back at his attorneys for their poor quality work product.
The judge said that the complaint failed to contain a “short and plain statement of the claim.” Mr. Trump has 28 days to refile. :: :: A federal judge in Florida on Friday threw out President Trump’s defamation suit against The New York Times four days after it was filed, calling the complaint “improper and impermissible” in its present form. :: :: Judge Steven D. Merryday, of the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida, said the president’s 85-page complaint was unnecessarily lengthy and digressive. He criticized Mr. Trump’s lawyers for waiting until the 80th page to lodge a formal allegation of defamation, and for including, ahead of it, dozens of “florid and enervating” pages lavishing praise on the president and enumerating a range of grievances.
When you write a complaint focussed on massaging the wounded ego of your needy and insatiable client, it might help to get the nub of your case across first, instead of posting indulgent exhibits ahead of the true complaint.
(Which I guess might be, “they hurt my client’s fee-fees” or something like that).
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