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Undated: List of lawsuits involving Donald
Trump
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_lawsuits_involving_Donald_Trump
Undated:
CREW has pursued aggressive litigation against the Trump administration, and as
of January 2018 had filed 180 lawsuits against what it called the "most
unethical presidency" in U.S. history.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens_for_Responsibility_and_Ethics_in_Washington
Timeinc.net presents a very thorough article about Trump, his golf courses, his
love of golf, related political issues, lawsuits, Trump remarks, taxes, Muslims,
climate change, Middle East business interests, and much more
http://amp.timeinc.net/golf/tour-news/2017/08/01/president-donald-trump-relationship-golf-more-complicated-now?source=dam
-- 2016 --
June 29: In covering a story, a media outlet
is not finding guilt. It is simply reporting the news that [for example] a
lawsuit has been filed against Mr. Trump, and ideally putting the complaint in
context. Unproven allegations are just that - unproven, and should be identified
that way. ... Proof comes later, at trial. But the November election will
come well before any trial. And while Mr. Trump is presumed innocent, we are
permitted — no, we are obligated — to analyze [a] case’s viability ....
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/lisa-bloom/why-the-new-child-rape-ca_b_10619944.html
June 2016: An analysis by
USA Today
published in June 2016 found that over the previous three decades, Trump and his
businesses have been involved in 3,500 legal cases in
U.S. federal courts and
state court, an unprecedented number for a
U.S. presidential candidate.[1]
Of the 3,500 suits, Trump or one of his companies were plaintiffs in 1,900;
defendants in 1,450; and
bankruptcy,
third party, or other in 150.[1]
Trump was named in at least 169 suits in federal court.[2]
A number of other cases (over 150) were in the
Seventeenth Judicial Circuit Court of Florida (covering
Broward County, Florida) since 1983.[3]
In about 500 cases, judges dismissed plaintiffs' claims against Trump. In
hundreds more, cases ended with the available public record unclear about the
resolution.[1]
Where there was a clear resolution, Trump won 451 times, and lost 38.[4]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_affairs_of_Donald_Trump
August 25: What Donald Trump Knew About
Undocumented Workers at His Signature Tower
In the summer of 1980,
Donald Trump faced a big problem. For six months, undocumented Polish
laborers had been clearing the future site of
Trump Tower, his signature real estate project on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue,
where he now lives, maintains his private offices and hosts his
presidential campaign.
The men were putting in 12-hour shifts with inadequate safety equipment at
subpar wages that their contractor paid sporadically, if at all. A lawyer for
many of the Poles demanded that the workers be paid or else he would serve Trump
with a lien on the property. One Polish worker even went to Trump's office to
ask him for money in person, according to sworn testimony and a deposition filed
under oath in a court case.
For help, Trump turned to Daniel Sullivan, a 6-ft. 5-in., 285-lb. labor
consultant, FBI informant and future officer of the Teamsters Union. "Donald
told me he had difficulties ...," Sullivan later testified in the case. "That he
had some illegal Polish employees on the job."
"I think you are nuts," Sullivan testified that he told Trump. "You are here
negotiating a lease in Atlantic City for a casino license and you are telling me
you have got illegal employees on the job."
http://time.com/4465744/donald-trump-undocumented-workers/
October 25: It takes a particularly
complicated type of merger to unite Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump, and Wall
Street in their skepticism of it ... Donald Trump,
addressing a crowd in Gettysburg, said his administration would not approve
[the merger deal between AT&T and Time Warner] because “it’s too much
concentration of power in the hands of too few.”
[See more at November 10, 2017]
https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2016/10/att-time-warner-boo-hiss/505367/
-- 2017 --
February 9: A lawsuit is ... pending in federal court in New York,
alleging that Mr. Trump is violating the Constitution by accepting payment from
foreign governments at his hotels and golf courses around the world. It is one
of dozens of lawsuits filed against him in recent weeks.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/09/us/politics/kellyanne-conway-ivanka-trump-ethics.html
March 23: The federal agency overseeing
Donald Trump's lease for a luxury hotel in Washington ruled Thursday that his
inauguration as president doesn't violate terms of the agreement barring
government officials from profiting from the property.
In a letter to the Trump Organization, General Services Administration
Contracting Officer Kevin M. Terry says he has determined that the president's
business is in "full compliance" because profits from the hotel won't go
directly to Trump while he's president.
https://www.usnews.com/news/business/articles/2017-03-23/feds-trump-dc-hotel-not-in-violation-of-government-lease
May 11: [Regarding the number
of lawsuits filed against Trump and his administration]: This is not normal, and
the way the courts are responding is the way I think we want the courts to
respond, which is adhering to the rule of law,” said Deepak Gupta, counsel for
the plaintiffs in the emoluments suit.
The Boston Globe reported last week that Trump has been sued 134
times in federal court since taking office, nearly three times as many as his
three predecessors.
... the sheer number of lawsuits Trump is facing — and the success they are having
so far — is what’s unprecedented. ... Some experts say the pace of litigation
against the administration is the result of Trump’s heavy use of executive
orders.
http://thehill.com/regulation/332858-lawsuits-piling-up-against-trump
Undated:
District court proceedings [allegation
that the defendant,
President
Donald
Trump, is in violation of the
Foreign Emoluments Clause
...
Trump filed a
motion to dismiss on June 9, 2017.[20]
on the grounds that the plaintiffs had no right to sue[21]
and that the described conduct was not illegal.[22]
A response to the motion to dismiss was filed on August 4, 2017, with a DOJ
reply due by September 22, 2017.[23]
A full answer from DOJ lawyers to the facts alleged in the complaint was due on
August 11, 2017.[24]
Oral arguments were expected October 18, 2017.[25]
On December 21, 2017, the motion to dismiss was granted; Judge
George B. Daniels held that plaintiffs lacked
standing.[14]
Appeal ...
CREW plans to appeal the dismissal of the suit
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CREW_v._Trump
Update:
On February 18, 2018, Plaintiff’s
appealed.
Update: On April
24, 2018, Plaintiff’s filed a brief
with the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.
https://www.citizensforethics.org/lawsuit/crew-v-donald-j-trump/
July 4:
Justice Department anti-fraud expert resigns, disturbed by Trump's 'stunning'
conduct ... [Hui Chen, an anti-corruption expert,
said] ..."on my mind were the numerous lawsuits
pending against the President of the United States for everything from
violations of the Constitution to conflict of interest ... and the investigators
and prosecutors fired for their pursuits of principles and facts ... including
the "cognitive dissonance" of "trying to hold companies to standards that our
current administration is not living up to"
http://www.cnn.com/2017/07/04/politics/justice-hui-chen-resignation/?iid=ob_article_footer_expansion
July 24: A federal judge has turned down a
watchdog group's demand that President Donald Trump's controversial voter fraud
commission be forced to conduct a privacy assessment before gathering data on
millions of American voters.
[District Judge] Kollar-Kotelly said the commission and a White House
information technology office did not appear to qualify as federal agencies and
therefore did not trigger the requirement for a privacy impact assessment.
https://www.politico.com/blogs/under-the-radar/2017/07/24/trump-voter-fraud-data-request-privacy-assessment-240892
August 28: President Trump has been sued
more than 135 times since taking office.
Many of the lawsuits pertain to his presidency, with cases regarding the
Emoluments Clause, the travel bans, his tweet about banning transgender people
from serving in the military, and his executive order threatening sanctuary
cities.
Others, including the litigation over Trump University and a libel suit brought
by a former contestant on The Apprentice, stem from Trump's behavior as
a private citizen before taking office.
http://www.townandcountrymag.com/society/politics/a9962852/lawsuits-against-donald-trump/
October 6: The American Civil Liberties
Union (ACLU), the National Women's Law Center (NWLC) and other groups vowed to
sue the Trump administration over regulations released Friday that would roll
back ObamaCare's birth control mandate.
The rollback “basically gives broad license to employers to discriminate against
their employees and withhold a benefit guaranteed by law ...”
http://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/354266-aclu-promises-lawsuit-against-trump-elimination-of-birth-control-mandate
October 15: A former contestant on "The
Apprentice" who accuses President Donald Trump of past sexual misconduct has
filed a subpoena for "all documents concerning any woman who asserted that
Donald J. Trump touched her inappropriately," it was revealed on Sunday.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/president-trump-subpoenaed-over-sexual-misconduct-allegations-n810871
October 17:
The terms of the [Trump] trust make it so Trump can technically
withdraw cash payments from his businesses any time he wants. He can also
dissolve the trust when he leaves office -- so if his businesses do well, he'll
ultimately profit.
CREW claims that because government leaders and entities frequent his hotels,
clubs and restaurants, Trump is in breach of the Emoluments Clause. The fear is
that international officials will try to curry favor with Trump by patronizing
his properties.
http://money.cnn.com/2017/10/17/news/trump-crew-emoluments-ethics/index.html?iid=ob_article_footer_expansion
October 26: Lawsuits against administration
keep Trump ‘accountable’
http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2017/oct/26/ferguson-lawsuits-against-administration-keep-trum/
October 26: The Trump Administration on
Thursday said it has agreed to pay between $1 million and $10 million to settle
lawsuits against the Internal Revenue Service for targeting tea-party groups in
the Obama era, saying in court documents that the IRS “admits that its
treatment...was wrong.”
The Justice Department entered into proposed settlements with groups that
alleged in 2013 they had been subject to discriminatory treatment in applying
for tax-exempt status. The move largely puts an end to a saga that had engulfed
the IRS for years.
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/trump-administration-agrees-to-settle-tea-party-lawsuits-against-irs-2017-10-26
October 31: Lawsuit Filed Against Trump
Administration for Rules Denying Women Birth Control Coverage
https://nwlc.org/press-releases/lawsuit-filed-against-trump-administration-for-rules-denying-women-birth-control-coverage/
November 1: A.C.L.U.
Sues Trump Administration Over Detention of 10-Year-Old Immigrant
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/01/us/aclu-trump-lawsuit-immigrant.html
November 1: “The Department of Labor’s
attempts to roll back the overtime and fiduciary rules are yet additional
examples of how the Trump administration has sided with well-connected
businesses over the working Americans whose interests the president claims to
represent,” said AO Executive Director Austin Evers, who most recently served as
a senior counsel at the State Department.
“The public has a right to know why the Trump administration believes ...
it’s okay for investment professionals to act in their own financial interests
instead of their clients’. Since the administration is staying mum, American
Oversight is suing to find out what’s been going on behind closed doors.”
https://www.forbes.com/sites/legalnewsline/2017/11/01/trump-administration-sued-over-delay-of-fiduciary-rule/#36c52e9e7501
November 6: The [Connecticut] state’s public
universities have joined a lawsuit filed against the
Trump administration over the announced termination of an Obama-era program
that shields young undocumented immigrants from deportation.
In an amicus brief, UConn and the Connecticut State Colleges and Universities
system argue ending the
Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program would harm the schools by
forcing students who lose protection from deportation to leave.
http://www.courant.com/politics/hc-pol-uconn-cscu-daca-lawsuit-20171106-story.html
November 9: A gun control group founded by
former Rep. Gabby Giffords, D-Ariz., is suing the Trump administration for
failing to disclose documents revealing the National Rifle Association’s
influence on Trump’s views towards gun policies.
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/trump-administration-sued-by-gun-control-group-founded-by-gabby-giffords/article/2640270
November 16: Two groups are suing the Trump
administration for allegedly illegally blocking an Obama-era regulation aimed at
closing the wage gap.
In their lawsuit, the National Women’s Law Center and Labor Council for Latin
American Advancement accuse the administration of canceling the rule without
explanation or opportunity for public comment, according to the
National Law Journal.
In August, the Trump administration
blocked the rule, which required businesses to track worker pay by gender,
race and ethnicity, calling it “enormously burdensome.”
http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/360678-trump-administration-sued-over-reversal-of-obama-era-pay-data-rule
November 16: The legal bill for Justice
Department lawyers and paralegals who are looking at lawsuits regarding
President Trump's businesses is reportedly being paid for by taxpayers.
USA Today reported taxpayers are paying for at least 10 Department of
Justice (DOJ) lawyers and paralegals who are looking into these lawsuits.
The amount of money being paid by taxpayers is not known, according to USA
Today.
Government lawyers normally get between $133,000 and $185,000 when assigned to
cases, according to the publication.
http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/360632-taxpayers-footing-legal-bill-for-justice-dept-to-work-on-lawsuits
November 17: A federal appeals court
announced that it will hear oral arguments on December 11 on whether a
groundbreaking
climate change lawsuit brought by 21 children and young adults against the
Trump administration can proceed to trial.
A trial date of Feb. 5, 2018, in Eugene, Oregon had been set by a lower federal
court in the lawsuit, Juliana et al v. United States.
But in July, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco paused the
lawsuit after the Trump administration filed a petition asking it to review the
lower court's decision to allow the case to go to trial. The Department of
Justice contended in its petition that proceeding with the case would launch a
discovery process that would be onerous to the federal government.
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/17112017/climate-change-lawsuit-kids-donald-trump-administration-our-childrens-trust
November 20: The Center for Biological
Diversity and Natural Resources Defense Council sued the Trump administration
today for allowing U.S. hunters to import elephant and lion trophies from
Zimbabwe. The
lawsuit aims to protect animals and resolve confusion created by the
administration’s contradictory announcements in recent days.
The suit comes days after the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service abruptly reversed
an Obama-era ban on
elephant trophy imports based on catastrophic elephant population declines.
Fish and Wildlife also recently greenlighted lion trophy imports from Zimbabwe,
despite the controversial killing of Cecil the Lion in Zimbabwe in 2015.
https://www.biologicaldiversity.org/news/press_releases/2017/elephant-11-20-2017.php
November 26: The ACLU has taken over 100
legal actions against the Trump administration so far
http://www.businessinsider.com/aclu-lawsuits-vs-trump-administration-2017-10
November 26: President Trump’s
administration has been hit with a lawsuit over its decision to appoint Mick
Mulvaney as acting head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, despite the
agency’s outgoing director having already picked his own successor. “The
president’s attempt to install a White House official at the head of independent
agency—while allowing that officer to simultaneously serve in the White House—is
unprecedented,” Deepak Gupta, a lawyer representing Leandra English, said in a
statement Sunday. English, the agency’s deputy director, has vowed to “stand up
for the CFPB” after Trump appeared to
override a decision by the agency’s former director, Richard Cordray, to
name her as the acting leader.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-administration-sued-over-cfpb-appointment
November 28: President Donald Trump hired
hundreds of undocumented Polish immigrants to demolish a New York City
building in 1980 and paid them as little as $4 an hour without providing proper
safety equipment to do the job, court documents show.
The workers and their contractor, William Kaszycki of Kaszycki & Sons, sued
Trump for unfair labor practices in 1983. After litigation dragged on for 15
years, Trump ultimately paid $1.375 million to settle the case.
“We worked in horrid, terrible conditions,” Wojciech Kozak, one of the
undocumented Polish workers at the demolition site, told the Times. “We
were frightened illegal immigrants and did not know enough about our rights.”
http://www.newsweek.com/trump-undocumented-immigrants-tower-demolish-724845
December 5: Lawsuit Could Put Trump's Sexual
Misconduct Accusers Back In Spotlight
A state judge in New York is weighing whether to dismiss a defamation lawsuit
that could bring allegations of sexual misconduct against President Trump back
into the spotlight amid a national reckoning over sexual harassment.
The case was brought by Summer Zervos, a former contestant on Trump's TV show
The Apprentice. According to a
complaint filed with the New York State Supreme Court, she alleges that in
2007, Trump kissed her on the mouth repeatedly, touched her breast and pressed
his genitals against her — all without her consent.
https://www.npr.org/2017/12/05/568618889/lawsuit-could-put-trumps-sexual-misconduct-accusers-back-in-spotlight
December 7: After President Donald Trump
issued proclamations taking an axe to Grand Staircase-Escalante National
Monument and Bears Ears National Monument in Utah, conservation organizations,
represented by Earthjustice,
filed a lawsuit attacking the order on Grand Staircase-Escalante on Dec. 4
as an abuse of the president’s power. On Dec. 7, nine conservation
organizations, represented by Earthjustice,
filed a lawsuit attacking the Bears Ears order, charging that the president
violated the 1906 Antiquities Act and the U.S. Constitution by eviscerating the
monument.
https://earthjustice.org/features/national-monuments?gclid=EAIaIQobChMI44P6vN7V2AIVk6DsCh3qMAhBEAMYAiAAEgKMYPD_BwE
December 9: Trump administration facing
lawsuit for allowing fracking companies to dump waste in Gulf of Mexico ... It
comes just months after the Environmental Protection Agency finalised a Clean
Water Act allowing oil companies to offload unlimited amounts of waste into
ocean basin
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/trump-administration-epa-sued-fracking-companies-dump-waste-gulf-mexico-centre-for-biological-a8101096.html
December 11:
A novel and potentially
precedent-setting lawsuit in which 21 young people are suing the Trump
administration for failing to address climate change advanced one step closer to
a trial on Monday.
The plaintiffs in the case are a group of budding scientists and climate
activists — kids and teenagers from around the country whose ages range from 10
to 21. While critics dismiss the suit as a publicity stunt, backers say many of
the young plaintiffs have experienced the brunt of climate change firsthand,
from a 13-year-old whose family lost their house in Louisiana flooding to a
16-year-old who worries that her home, the Marshall Islands, will be covered by
rising oceans.
The group of climate change nonprofits that’s funding the federal case has also
filed similar lawsuits in all 50 states.
https://www.mercurynews.com/2017/12/11/kids-lawsuit-against-trump-administration-over-climate-change-goes-to-san-francisco-court/
December 20: Strategies Emerge In 24 State
Lawsuits Against Trump Administration
http://www.capradio.org/articles/2017/12/20/strategies-emerge-in-24-state-lawsuits-against-trump-admin/
December 21: A federal judge on Thursday
dismissed a pair of lawsuits claiming that President Donald Trump’s failure to
divest himself of his real estate empire and other business holdings violated
the Constitution’s provision banning receipt of foreign “emoluments” while in
public office.
U.S. District Court Judge George Daniels
ruled that the two suits were fatally flawed because the plaintiffs
failed to show injury directly related to the use of Trump’s properties by
foreign officials and governments.
https://www.politico.com/story/2017/12/21/judge-dismisses-suits-emoluments-312610
-- 2018 --
Undated 2018:
Forty-six Center Suits Filed Against Trump Since His Administration's Inception
The Center for Biological Diversity is
resisting Trump in every way possible — especially in the courts.
From the moment he took office, our lawyers have been working feverishly to
oppose every attempt he's made to worsen climate change, kill wildlife, endanger
public health and destroy public lands.
http://www.biologicaldiversity.org/campaigns/trump_lawsuits/
January 4: 10 times Donald Trump has raised
the possibility of lawsuits on Twitter ... A lawyer for President Donald Trump
says a lawsuit is coming against former White House chief strategist Steve
Bannon after some brutally critical comments he made in a new book.
Whether the President's lawyer follows through or not, just the threat of a
lawsuit is a tried-and-true approach Trump has resorted to time and again --
even before he began campaigning.
http://www.cnn.com/2018/01/04/politics/trump-twitter-lawsuit-threats-list-trnd/index.html
March 5:
Judge removes Trump family hotel business from Trump Panama City Hotel
Escorted by police officers and a Panamanian judicial official, the owners of
the Trump Panama City hotel have taken control of the property. A team of Trump
Organization security officials abandoned the area on Monday.
The action by Panama's government resolves a 12-day standoff between President
Donald Trump's family hotel business and Orestes Fintiklis, a private equity
investor who boutgh a majority of the units in the Panama property and then
sought to drop the Trump Organization's management company and brand. Though
Fintiklis and other owners tried to fire Mr. Trump's company last year, the
Trump Organization had refused to surrender physical possession of the hotel.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/judge-removes-trump-family-hotel-business-from-trump-panama-city-hotel/
March 6: After 12-day standoff, workers
strip Trump name from Panama hotel with crowbar
A bitter feud between the Trump Organization and the owners of a Panama City
hotel that carries the president's name ended this week after a 12-day standoff
for control of the 70-story luxury, waterfront high-rise.
The short version is that the Trump Organization appears to have, for now, lost
the fight.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2018/03/06/trumps-name-removed-panama-hotel/398259002/
March 5:
Trump lawyer Michael Cohen reportedly complained he was never
reimbursed for his $130,000 payment to Stormy Daniels
Clifford [Stormy Daniels] received the payment on Oct. 27, 2016, which the
Journal notes was just 12 days before the election. "It isn't clear when
First Republic reported [the transfer] to the government as suspicious," the
Journal writes. Last month, Cohen
admitted to The New York Times that he had personally funded the
payment to Clifford, insisting neither the Trump Organization nor Trump campaign
were involved and calling the exchange a "private transaction." He also declined
to explain why the payment was made.
the Journal reported that after the election, Cohen "complained to
friends that he had yet to be reimbursed for the payment." Cohen additionally
told people that he had missed two prior deadlines to pay Clifford because he
could not get in contact with Trump at the time, just a few weeks before the
election.
http://theweek.com/speedreads/759128/trump-lawyer-michael-cohen-reportedly-complained-never-reimbursed-130000-payment-stormy-daniels
March 6: Stormy Daniels sues to nullify
Trump "hush agreement," says he didn't sign
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/stormy-daniels-donald-trump-hush-agreement-california-court/
March 20:
Former ‘Apprentice’ contestant can sue Trump for defamation
President Trump must face a defamation suit filed by former “Apprentice”
contestant Summer Zervos — as a Manhattan Supreme Court judge denied him
immunity through his job as the nation’s commander-in-chief.
“In Clinton v Jones the United States Supreme Court held that a sitting
president is not immune from being sued in federal court for unofficial acts,”
Justice Jennifer Schecter wrote in a ruling released Tuesday, citing the sexual
harassment suit that led to the 1998 impeachment of then-President Bill Clinton
for lying under oath about his affair with White House intern Monica Lewinsky.
https://nypost.com/2018/03/20/former-apprentice-contestant-can-sue-trump-for-defamation/
April 20:
Democrats
file suit alleging Russia, Trump campaign, WikiLeaks conspired to interfere in
2016 campaign
https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/20/politics/democrats-lawsuit-russia/index.html
June 14: New York attorney general sues
Trump and family over charity, claiming 'illegal conduct' for 'more than a
decade' ... The AG is seeking $2.8 million in restitution and wants to dissolve
the foundation
[
She also alleged "repeated and willful self-dealing transactions to benefit Mr.
Trump's personal and business interests." She said the foundation violated
"basic legal obligations for non-profit foundations."
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/06/14/new-york-attorney-general-sues-trump-and-family-over-charity.html
June 19:
How odd is the way the Trump
Foundation operates when compared to other similar-sized foundations?
The most serious [New York] state charge is essentially the basket of violations
of the duty of care as reflected in the purchase of paintings to decorate Trump
resorts, the use of foundation funds to settle lawsuit disputes between the
Trump Organization and various third parties, the use of foundation assets to
support Donald Trump's political campaign and, finally, the misreporting of the
preceding on the foundation's federal Form 990-PF return, which New York law
also requires to be filed with the New York attorney general.
... the filing of knowingly false or inaccurate Form 990 federal tax returns has
triggered criminal sanctions in at least five or six cases in the last 10 years.
The charges in those case included conspiracy to defraud the United States, the
making false statements on tax returns and the aiding and abetting of the filing
of a false tax return. The penalties can include substantial fines and jail
time.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/19/politics/trump-foundation-q-and-a/index.html
July 25: Judge allows case alleging illegal
foreign gifts to proceed against President
A federal judge in Maryland on Wednesday
denied
a motion to dismiss portions of a lawsuit alleging that President Donald
Trump, through his Trump International Hotel in DC and the Trump Organization,
violated a constitutional clause banning gifts or advantages from foreign and
domestic governments.
In his opinion, Judge Peter Messitte of the US District Court of Maryland
largely sided with Maryland and Washington, DC's definition of emolument as an
"advantage." Trump was arguing for a more restrictive
definition of the term as a "gift."
https://www.cnn.com/2018/07/25/politics/emoluments-case-donald-trump-washington-dc/index.html
August 31: Trump Foundation asks for
dismissal of NY attorney general's lawsuit
https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/31/politics/trump-foundation-new-york-attorney-general-lawsuit/index.html
September 21: The People vs. Donald Trump:
Every Major Lawsuit and Investigation the President Faces
http://fortune.com/2018/09/21/donald-trump-lawsuit-investigation-charges-news-update/
September 25: Maurice Symonette has become a
political celebrity thanks to Donald Trump's staff, which has repeatedly given
the ex-member of Miami's deadly Yahweh ben Yahweh cult prime seats behind the
president at nationally televised rallies to show off his "Blacks for Trump"
signs. But Symonette
recently told a bankruptcy court that he's dead broke, raising the question
of who's been paying for his recent trips to rallies from Arizona to Tampa.
Now a federal judge has banned one of Trump's most visible black supporters from
bankruptcy court for five years and accused him of repeatedly abusing the
system.
https://www.miaminewtimes.com/news/blacks-for-trump-founder-maurice-symonette-banned-from-bankruptcy-court-for-abusing-system-10764071
October 4: The New York Attorney General's
Office is
urging a state court not to dismiss its lawsuit against President Trump's
charitable foundation, saying the foundation has repeatedly violated state and
federal laws.
Attorney General Barbara Underwood said the Donald J. Trump Foundation "was a
shell corporation that functioned as a checkbook from which the business entity
known as the Trump Organization made payments."
https://www.npr.org/2018/10/04/654587755/new-york-ag-presses-forward-with-suit-against-trumps-charitable-foundation
November 16: A federal judge in Washington,
D.C., delivered a blow to President Trump Friday, ruling in favor of CNN and the
news media.
Judge Timothy Kelly, a Trump appointee, ordered the White House to restore
correspondent Jim Acosta's press credentials, something the White House said
later it would do.
This is not the end of the road in this fight, however. The judge also said the
White House needs to establish standardized rules if it wants to try and justify
taking away a pass from a reporter covering the White House. He said he wants to
hear from both sides again Tuesday to determine the way forward.
https://www.npr.org/2018/11/16/668359711/judge-rules-in-favor-of-cnn-temporarily-restores-correspondents-credential?utm_source=npr_newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=20181116&utm_campaign=breakingnews&utm_term=nprnews
December 3:
A federal judge on Monday
said lawyers for Maryland and Washington, D.C., can begin issuing subpoenas
in a lawsuit that accuses President Donald Trump of using his luxury hotel in
Washington to unconstitutionally profit from his political office.
The attorneys general in Maryland and Washington say they plan to serve as many
as 20 companies and government agencies with subpoenas by midday Tuesday. It’s
the first time a lawsuit alleging a president violated the Constitution's
emoluments, or anti-corruption, clauses has advanced to the discovery stage.
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/12/03/subpoenas-trump-hotel-emoluments-1041324
December 10: Judge rules Trump
administration justified in ending Obama-era immigration program
The Trump
administration provided adequate justification for its decision to end a
program that reunited hundreds of immigrants from Central America with family
members in the U.S., a federal judge ruled Monday.
Magistrate Judge
Laurel Beeler threw out the bulk of a lawsuit that argued the termination of
the Obama-era Central American Minors program was arbitrary and violated the
U.S. Constitution.
The program allowed parents legally in the U.S. to apply to bring children or
other family members living in Honduras, Guatemala or El Salvador to the U.S.
One of the goals was to discourage children from making the dangerous journey
from those countries to the U.S. to be with family.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/dec/10/judge-laurel-beeler-rules-trump-administration-jus/
December 10: Linda Evarts, an attorney with
the International Refugee Assistance Project who is representing plaintiffs,
said she welcomed that part of the ruling and called the decision “an important
first step.”
Beeler in a separate order suggested the plaintiffs might be able to revise
their lawsuit to address some of her concerns.
The judge, however, found the administration had sufficient policy and legal
arguments for its decision to end the Central American Minors program.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/pb/national/us-judge-tosses-bulk-of-suit-against-trump-immigration-move/2018/12/10/5b6215c4-fcdb-11e8-a17e-162b712e8fc2_story.html?nid=menu_nav_accessibilityforscreenreader&outputType=accessibility&utm_term=.c1a915d826f7
December 11: Trump awarded nearly $300,000 in
legal fees in Daniels defamation lawsuit
Adult film actress Stormy Daniels must pay more than $290,000 to reimburse
President Donald Trump for legal fees he spent defending himself in a defamation
lawsuit she brought against him over a tweet, a judge ruled on Tuesday.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-daniels-lawsuit/trump-awarded-nearly-300000-in-legal-fees-in-daniels-defamation-lawsuit-idUSKBN1OB029
December
18: Trump Foundation To Dissolve Amid New York AG's Investigation
New York Attorney General Barbara Underwood has announced that the
Trump Foundation will dissolve. The foundation was established by Donald
Trump well before he ran for president.
The news comes as her office continues its investigation into various questions
about the foundation's conduct, including whether the foundation broke the law
by coordinating with Trump's 2016 presidential campaign and whether it was truly
functioning as a charitable organization.
https://www.npr.org/2018/12/18/677778958/trump-foundation-to-dissolve-amid-new-york-ags-investigation
December
13: Elliott Broidy, Former Top Trump Fundraiser, Hit
With Another Setback in Qatar Lawsuit
Elliott Broidy's case against veteran UN diplomat tossed
Broidy claims he was targeted by Qatar and its agents over his efforts to shift
U.S. policy against Gulf nation
A former top fundraiser for U.S. President Donald Trump suffered another legal
setback on Friday in his efforts to pin the
blame on Qatar for a hack of his emails, as a judge tossed his lawsuit
against a veteran
United Nations diplomat.
Elliott Broidy, a businessman who held senior finance posts in Trump’s 2016
presidential campaign and his inaugural committee, sued Jamal Benomar in July,
claiming he orchestrated the dissemination of hacked emails to media outlets.
Benomar, a British citizen born in Morocco and a former U.N. special envoy for
Yemen, had
denied involvement and sought to get the lawsuit thrown out by asserting
diplomatic immunity, a status confirmed by the Trump administration last month.
Siding with Benomar, Manhattan federal District Judge Cathy Seibel on Friday
dismissed the case, court records show.
https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/elliott-broidy-former-top-trump-fundraiser-hit-with-another-setback-in-qatar-lawsu-1.6767499
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