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Amended defamation case dismissed with prejudiceClose the amended complaint's return window
Litigation has been advised that another edit is not the same as another available filing. The requested damages remain a request, not a receivable.
- Executive owner
- Donald J. Trump / personal legal team
- Status
- Amended defamation case dismissed with prejudice
- Due
- October 31 district-court dismissal
- Paying for it
- Private litigants' legal expenses and federal court resources
ACTIVITY
UpdatedI don't like WITH PREJUDICE.
That phrase describes the effect of the dismissal.
I asked for a correction and now everybody is correcting my understanding of the words. Actual malice, with prejudice, tremendous vocabulary for a paper that wouldn't print what I wanted. I have very plain words for this, the lawyers keep charging me for longer ones.
The damages demand was never an award.
I know the difference. I'm asking where the next page is.
Any further legal step requires separate assessment.
Then assess it before ordering another giant binder. I've got enough binders that promised to be the last binder.
PUBLIC RECORD
On October 31, Judge Darrin Gayles dismissed Trump's amended Wall Street Journal defamation suit with prejudice, finding that he again failed to establish actual malice. Trump's lawyers argued the story should have been dropped after his denial; the judge rejected that position. The suit sought at least $10 billion. Dismissal prevents bringing the case again in that court; it is not a damages award.