A federal district judge in Florida threw out President Donald Trump’s multibillion-dollar defamation lawsuit against The New York Times on Sept. 19.
U.S. District Judge Steven Merryday said in a ruling that the lawsuit as it currently stands violates court rules.
The suit “stands unmistakably and inexcusably athwart the requirements of Rule 8” of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure,” the judge said.
The lawsuit was filed Sept. 15.
That rule requires that a legal complaint must include “a short and plain statement of the claim showing that the pleader is entitled to relief.”
The complaint weighs in at 85 pages, yet the first count does not appear until page 80; the second appears on page 83. “Even under the most generous and lenient application of Rule 8, the complaint is decidedly improper and impermissible,” the judge said….