According to magistrate Steven Merryda, a document extrapolated the procedural boundaries, contained praise to the US President and did not respect the rules of the Court
A federal judge of rejected on Friday (19) the $ 15 billion action filed by the president, against The New York Times for defamation. The complaint, presented on September 15, had 85 pages and was considered “inappropriate and inadmissible” by magistrate Steven Merryday, appointed by former President George HW Bush.
According to him, the document extrapolated the procedural limits, contained compliments to Trump and did not respect the rules of the Court. “A lawsuit should be brief, simple and direct, with allegations of plausible facts. It is not a forum for insults or a platform to unload anger against opponents,” the judge wrote in the decision.
Despite the rejection, Merryday gave 28 days for lawyers to reform the complaint as long as it does not exceed 40 pages. The New York Times celebrated the result. “The judge quickly recognized that the complaint was a political document and not a serious legal demand,” the company said in a statement published in X (former Twitter).
The process against Times is another chapter of Trump’s offensive against communication vehicles. Since returning to the White House in January, the 79 -year -old president has intensified press attacks, restricted access to collectives and filed actions with billionaire values against journalists and media companies.
This week, ABC, belonging to the Disney group, suspended Jimmy Kimmel’s program indefinitely after pressure from the White House. The presenter had made critical comments about the murder of the right -wing influencer Charlie Kirk, which led the Federal Communications Commission to threaten the broadcaster’s broadcast licenses.
In the action, Trump accused the newspaper of following a “decades pattern” of “malice” defamings, pointing to the teams as the main diffuser of “falsehoods” against his image. In addition to the newspaper, the process also cited four journalists of the publication and the publisher Penguin Random House, responsible for a book about the origin of the president’s fortune.
Despite the strong constitutional protection of press freedom in the US, Trump has already earned disputes on disputes against other companies, such as ABC and CBS, who agreed to pay millionaire compensation to avoid prolonging legal disputes. The president also sued the tycoon Rupert Murdoch and the Wall Street Journal, demanding $ 10 billion in reparation after reporting about his alleged correspondence with convicted sex criminal Jeffrey Epstein.
*With information from AFP
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