A Florida federal judge ordered President Trump‘s $15 billion defamation and libel lawsuit against the New York Times struck from the record Friday, calling the length of the complaint “improper and impermissible.”
In a scathing, four-page order, Tampa US District Judge Steven D. Merryday gave Trump 28 days to file an amended complaint that “must not exceed” 40 pages in length.
“Alleging only two simple counts of defamation, the complaint consumes eighty-five pages,” wrote the judge, appointed to the federal bench by President George H.W. Bush.