U.S. District Judge Darrin Gayles in Miami dismissed the suit with prejudice, ruling that the president did not prove the defendants made defamatory statements with actual malice as required by law.
A federal judge has once again dismissed President Donald Trump’s defamation claims against the Wall Street Journal over a 2025 report by the paper that a 2003 birthday letter to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein was purportedly written by Trump. Trump’s lawsuit “falls short of pleading actual malice,” wrote U.S. District Judge Darrin P. Gayles […]
A federal judge has again dismissed Donald Trump’s $10 billion defamation lawsuit against The Wall Street Journal over its reporting on a letter sent to Jeffrey Epstein for his birthday in 2003. U.S. District Judge Darrin P. Gayles wrote in his opinion that Trump’s lawsuit “falls short of pleading actual malice. Indeed, the allegations regarding […]
A judge has ordered the federal government to pull three taxpayer-funded Trump administration ads from television, social media and elsewhere that she says appear to have been made for political or propaganda purposes
A New Mexico judge has dismissed a grand jury indictment that accused actor Timothy Busfield him of four counts of criminal sexual contact with a child
