Read our Privacy noticeA federal judge in Florida has thrown out President Donald Trump’s $15 billion lawsuit against The New York Times in a scathing order slamming the litigation as “decidedly improper and impermissible” under the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and ordered his attorneys to obey a page limit if they want to re-file the case. U.S. District Judge Steven D. Merryday, who was named to the federal bench by former President George H.W. Bush, struck the president’s legal complaint from the court’s docket in an order lambasting both Trump and his legal team for having brought it in the first place. Merryday noted that Trump’s 85-page complaint had alleged “only two simple counts of defamation” while taking a full eighty pages to get to the first count. In a statement, a spokesperson for the president’s private attorneys said Trump would “continue to hold the Fake News accountable through this powerhouse lawsuit against the New York Times, its reporters, and Penguin Random House, in accordance with the judge’s direction on logistics.”

Source: The Times September 19, 2025 17:08 UTC