Legal Notices
Legal Notices
Public notice is hereby given of the following actions in which the president of the United States appears. 64 notices follow.
As defendant (20)
United States v. Fred C. Trump, Donald Trump, and Trump Management, E.D.N.Y., filed Oct 1973. The Fair Housing Act, five years old, applied to some 14,000 family apartments. The $100 million countersuit against the government was dismissed; the 1975 consent decree required the defendants to "thoroughly acquaint themselves personally" with the law; the government returned in 1978 alleging violations. Consent decree. Civil Rights Litigation Clearinghouse
Hardy v. Kaszycki & Sons (the Polish Brigade), S.D.N.Y., filed 1983. Two hundred undocumented Polish laborers demolished the Bonwit Teller building to clear the Trump Tower site — twelve-hour shifts, as little as $4 an hour, no masks in the asbestos. Settled 1998, $1.375 million; the file stayed sealed for another nineteen years. Settled, sealed until 2017. TIME
Roffman v. Trump, filed 1990. The analyst who predicted in print that the Taj Mahal would fail was fired after Trump demanded it; the Taj entered Chapter 11 the next year, as predicted. His arbitration against his old firm won $750,000; his defamation suit against Trump settled, undisclosed. Settled. NPR
In the Matter of Trump Castle (the chips), N.J. Casino Control Commission, 1991. The day before an $18.4 million bond payment came due, his father's lawyer bought $3.35 million in chips with a certified check and left the floor without gambling. Ruled an unreported, illegal loan — fined: $30,000 in contemporaneous accounts, $65,000 in later ones. Fined. UPI
In the Matter of Trump Plaza (the dealers), N.J. Casino Control Commission, fined Jun 1991. Managers removed Black and women dealers from the tables at a high roller's demand. Fined $200,000 for race and sex discrimination, upheld on appeal 1992; a further $450,000 for supplying the same customer $1.6 million in luxury cars as disguised gifts. Fines upheld. UPI
McGovern v. Trump Mortgage, N.Y. Sup. Ct., judgment 2008. The mortgage venture, launched April 2006 into the crash and closed within eighteen months, owed a former executive $298,274 in commissions. Judgment entered; the company was empty; it was never paid. Judgment unpaid. The Real Deal
Low v. Trump University; New York v. The Trump Entrepreneur Initiative, S.D. Cal. and N.Y., filed 2010–2013. The seminar business. Settled ten days after the 2016 election: $25 million, the students recovering more than eighty cents on the dollar. From the playbook the court unsealed: "Money is never a reason for not enrolling." Settled. NPR
Galicia v. Trump, Bronx Sup. Ct., filed 2015. Protesters outside Trump Tower, struck by his head of security, on video. Settled in 2022 during jury selection, seven years on; the terms included his written acknowledgment of the right to protest on the public sidewalk. Settled. ABC News
Zervos v. Trump, N.Y. Sup. Ct., filed Jan 2017. Defamation, from an Apprentice contestant he called a liar. He spent nearly five years arguing a sitting president cannot be sued in state court and lost at every stage that ruled — "the president is still a person." Dropped in 2021, no money either way, with his deposition on the calendar. Discontinued. Washington Post
Clifford v. Trump (the defamation), C.D. Cal., filed Apr 2018. Over a tweet calling her account "a total con job." Dismissed as rhetorical hyperbole; the plaintiff was ordered to pay his fees — about $293,000, and $122,000 more on appeal. Dismissed; she paid his fees. NPR
New York v. The Donald J. Trump Foundation, N.Y. Sup. Ct., Manhattan, filed Jun 2018. The charity. More than $2.8 million raised for veterans was disbursed by his campaign staff; $2 million in damages, written admissions, dissolution under supervision. The inventory included a $10,000 portrait of himself, bought with the charity's money. Dissolved; $2 million. NPR
Doe v. The Trump Corporation, S.D.N.Y., filed Oct 2018. Investors said the family pitched a multi-level marketing venture on television as independent judgment while collecting undisclosed millions from it. Dismissed in January 2024, weeks before trial; no liability found, nothing paid. Dismissed. CNN
Carroll v. Trump (the 2019 statements), S.D.N.Y., filed Nov 2019. Defamation. Judgment $83.3 million, January 2024; affirmed September 2025, the court rating the conduct's reprehensibility "remarkably high, perhaps unprecedented." His July 2026 petition to the Supreme Court was filed with the Justice Department on his side of the v. Petition pending. CNBC
District of Columbia v. 58th Presidential Inaugural Committee, Trump Organization, D.C. Super. Ct., filed Jan 2020. The nonprofit inaugural fund overpaid about $1 million to rent space at his own hotel, a private party for his adult children included. Settled for $750,000, no admission; the money went to charity. Settled. CNBC
New York v. Trump (the civil fraud), N.Y. Sup. Ct., Manhattan, filed Sep 2022. Fraud. Judgment $454 million, February 2024. The appeals court voided the penalty in August 2025 as an unconstitutionally excessive fine; the liability findings stand. State's appeal pending. CNN
Carroll v. Trump (the assault), S.D.N.Y., filed Nov 2022. Sexual abuse and defamation, $5 million, affirmed at every level; the Supreme Court declined in June 2026 and, on rehearing, declined again in August. At deposition, shown a photograph of the plaintiff, he identified his ex-wife. Paid July 14, 2026 — $5.6 million with interest. NPR
People of the State of New York v. Trump, N.Y. Sup. Ct., Manhattan, filed Apr 2023. Falsifying business records. Guilty on all thirty-four counts, May 2024; sentenced January 10, 2025, to unconditional discharge — the conviction stands, the penalty is nothing. The inauguration was ten days later. Conviction on appeal. NPR
United States v. Trump, twice, D.D.C. and S.D. Fla., filed 2023. Election interference; classified documents. Both dismissed November 2024 under the Department's policy that a sitting president cannot be prosecuted. Dismissed. NPR
Learning Resources v. Trump (the tariffs), Supreme Court of the United States, decided Feb 2026. The IEEPA tariffs, challenged by a toy company among others. Held, 6–3: the power to "regulate importation" is not a power to tax it. Refund estimates ran as high as $175 billion; new tariffs followed under other statutes, and new suits followed those. Tariffs struck down. supremecourt.gov
In re the remainder: the United States, its agencies, and its officers, various federal courts, 2025–. 943 actions challenging acts of the present administration — 293 decided for the plaintiffs, 157 for the government, 408 pending, per the Just Security litigation tracker, August 20, 2026. Notices to follow as dispositions enter. Just Security
As plaintiff (44)
USFL v. NFL, S.D.N.Y., verdict Jul 1986. As owner of the New Jersey Generals he drove the league's antitrust suit and its move to fall Sundays. The jury found the NFL a monopoly and the league's wounds self-inflicted: damages of one dollar, trebled by statute to three. The $3.76 check, interest included, was never cashed. Won, $3. ESPN
Trump v. Griffin, Del. Ch., 1988. Dueling takeover suits over Resorts International. Settled: Griffin took Resorts, Trump took the unfinished Taj Mahal for $273 million. Both halves were in bankruptcy within three years. Settled. UPI
In re Trump Taj Mahal, and successors, U.S. Bankruptcy Court, D.N.J., filed 1991, 1992, 2004, 2009. Four casino reorganizations in eighteen years: the Taj Mahal within fifteen months of opening; the Castle and the Plaza the next year; Trump Hotels, 2004; Trump Entertainment, 2009. Each cycle the bondholders swapped debt for equity and his stake shrank — half, then a quarter, then about ten percent, retained for the use of the name. Reorganized, four times. American Bankruptcy Institute
Casino Reinvestment Development Authority v. Coking, N.J. Super. Ct., begun 1994. The state's casino authority moved to condemn a boardinghouse so Trump Plaza could build limousine parking, offering $251,000 for a house once offered $1 million. Ruled against, 1998: with "no limits" on what the developer could do with the land, the taking failed the public-use test. She kept the house. Condemnation denied. Institute for Justice
Trump v. Palm Beach County (the airport), Palm Beach Cir. Ct., filed 1995. $75 million over jet noise above Mar-a-Lago. Settled 1996: the county leased him 214 acres beside the runway, now Trump International Golf Club. He sued over the noise again in 2010 and 2015, and dropped both. Settled. CBS News
Trump v. O'Brien, N.J. Super. Ct., filed Jan 2006. $5 billion, over a book putting his net worth at $150 to $250 million. From his deposition: "My net worth fluctuates, and it goes up and down with markets and with attitudes and with feelings, even my own feelings." Dismissed 2009; affirmed 2011. Dismissed. N.J. Appellate Division
Trump v. Town of Palm Beach (the flagpole), S.D. Fla., filed Dec 2006. $25 million over code fines for an oversized flag. Mediated 2007: the fines waived, the pole shortened ten feet, and $100,000 promised to veterans' charities — paid, it later emerged, by his charitable foundation. Settled. NPR
Trump v. Deutsche Bank, N.Y. Sup. Ct., Queens, filed Nov 2008. His $40 million guarantee on the Chicago tower came due; he sued first, pleading the crash as force majeure and seeking $3 billion from a bank he called primarily responsible for it. Settled; the guarantee was repaid in part with money borrowed from another arm of the same bank. Settled. CBS News
Trump v. Maher, L.A. Super. Ct., filed Feb 2013. $5 million to enforce a comedian's orangutan joke as a contract, birth certificate attached. Withdrawn eight weeks later, to be "amended and refiled." It never was. Withdrawn. CNN
Trump v. Univision, N.Y. Sup. Ct., filed Jun 2015. $500 million after the network dropped his pageant broadcast over his campaign-launch remarks. Settled, terms confidential; no public evidence anything was paid to him. Settled. CNN
Donald J. Trump for President v. Manigault Newman, American Arbitration Association, filed Aug 2018. The campaign NDA, invoked the day her book published. Ruled "overbroad, indefinite, and unreasonable," hence unenforceable; the campaign was ordered to pay $1.3 million of her fees. Lost. CNBC
Donald J. Trump for President v. The New York Times; v. The Washington Post; v. CNN, N.Y. Sup. Ct.; D.D.C.; N.D. Ga., filed 2020. Three suits over three opinion pieces about Russia. All three dismissed — protected opinion, no actual malice pleaded. Nothing recovered. Dismissed, all three. First Amendment Watch
Trump v. Meta; Trump v. X; Trump v. YouTube, S.D. Fla., transferred N.D. Cal., filed Jul 2021. The deplatforming suits. Settled in 2025: Meta for $25 million, X for about $10 million, YouTube for $24.5 million — $22 million of it to the fund building the White House ballroom. Settled. CNBC
Trump v. Mary Trump, The New York Times, N.Y. Sup. Ct., Dutchess County, filed Sep 2021. $100 million over the Pulitzer-winning tax-records investigation. The Times was dismissed — newsgathering "at the very core of protected First Amendment activity" — and he was ordered to pay its fees: $392,638.69. The claim against his niece settled in June 2026, terms undisclosed. Dismissed as to the Times; fees against him. NBC News
Trump v. Clinton, and thirty others, S.D. Fla., filed Mar 2022. Racketeering, against a former opponent, a former FBI director, and the Democratic National Committee. Dismissed with prejudice — "this case should never have been brought" — with $937,989.39 in sanctions against him and his lead counsel for "a continuing pattern of misuse of the courts." Affirmed on appeal, 2025. Dismissed; sanctioned. Axios
Trump v. CNN, S.D. Fla., filed Oct 2022. $475 million: calling his election claims "the Big Lie," the suit said, was defamation. Dismissed — opinion is not defamation — by a judge of his own appointment. Dismissed. NBC News
Trump v. James (the Florida suit), N.D. Fla., filed Nov 2022. Filed to stop the New York fraud trial before it started. Dropped two days after the $938,000 sanctions order arrived in the Clinton case. Withdrawn. NBC News
Trump v. Members of the Pulitzer Prize Board, Fla. Cir. Ct., Okeechobee County, filed Dec 2022. Defamation, over a prize the board declined to rescind. In discovery: as of June 2026, six board members had been deposed, and the plaintiff had produced zero documents. Pending. WUSF
Trump v. Woodward, Simon & Schuster, S.D.N.Y., filed Jan 2023. $49.98 million, claiming co-authorship of his own interview answers. Dismissed July 2025 — the court doubted a plausible copyright claim could ever be pleaded — then amended, and moved against again. The audiobook credits him as reader. Motion to dismiss pending. CNN
Trump v. Anderson, Supreme Court of the United States, decided Mar 2024. Colorado's supreme court had ordered him off the primary ballot under the insurrection clause. Reversed, 9–0: states cannot enforce Section 3 against federal candidates. Won. supremecourt.gov
Trump v. American Broadcasting Companies, Stephanopoulos, S.D. Fla., filed Mar 2024. Defamation. Settled December 2024: $15 million to his presidential foundation and museum, $1 million in fees, and a statement of regret. Settled. PBS NewsHour
Trump v. United States, Supreme Court of the United States, decided Jul 2024. Asked immunity from the election-interference indictment. Held, 6–3: absolute immunity for core constitutional acts, presumptive immunity for the official, none for the unofficial. The indictment did not survive the election that followed. Won. supremecourt.gov
Trump v. CBS Broadcasting (Paramount), N.D. Tex., Amarillo Div., filed Oct 2024. Over an interview edit: $10 billion, amended to $20 billion. Settled July 2025 for $16 million toward the presidential library, no apology. The FCC approved Paramount's $8.4 billion merger twenty-three days later. Settled. CBS News
Trump v. Selzer, Des Moines Register, Gannett, Iowa Dist. Ct., Polk County, filed Dec 2024. Consumer fraud, over a poll — one he went on to win by thirteen points. Dropped in federal court and refiled in state court within a day; at the July 2026 hearing the judge warned of a "massive chilling effect." Motion to dismiss under advisement. KCRG
Trump v. New York (the sentencing), Supreme Court of the United States, Jan 2025. Asked to halt his felony sentencing, eleven days before the inauguration. Denied, 5–4, the Chief Justice and Justice Barrett with the majority. Sentenced the next morning. Denied. SCOTUSblog
Trump v. J.G.G., Supreme Court of the United States, Apr 2025. Asked to lift the restraining orders on Alien Enemies Act removals. Vacated, 5–4, on venue — with notice and a hearing required before anyone is removed. Granted on venue. supremecourt.gov
Trump v. Wilcox, Supreme Court of the United States, May 2025. Asked to keep two fired labor-board members fired while their cases ran. Granted, 6–3; the order added that the Federal Reserve is "uniquely structured." Stay granted. supremecourt.gov
Trump v. CASA, Supreme Court of the United States, decided Jun 2025. Asked not whether the birthright-citizenship order was lawful but whether one judge could block it everywhere. Held, 6–3: universal injunctions exceed the courts' equitable authority. The merits took another year; see Trump v. Barbara. Won on procedure. supremecourt.gov
Trump v. American Federation of Government Employees, Supreme Court of the United States, Jul 2025. Asked to let the mass layoffs across some twenty-two agencies proceed while the challenges ran. Granted, with one noted dissent. Stay granted. supremecourt.gov
Trump v. Boyle, Supreme Court of the United States, Jul 2025. Consumer-product-safety commissioners, fired and reinstated; the reinstatement stayed, 6–3. Stay granted. SCOTUSblog
Trump v. Murdoch, Dow Jones (Wall Street Journal), S.D. Fla., filed Jul 2025. $10 billion, over a birthday letter. Dismissed April 2026 — the Journal had "attempted to investigate" before publishing, the court noted, which is not actual malice. Amended May 2026. Pending. CNBC
United States v. Comey, E.D. Va., filed Sep 2025. Indicted five days after the president posted "What about Comey" to his attorney general, by a prosecutor who had been his personal lawyer. Dismissed November 2025 — the prosecutor was unlawfully appointed — the statute of limitations having run five days after the indictment. Dismissed; appeal to be argued September 15, 2026. NPR
Trump v. The New York Times, Penguin Random House, M.D. Fla., filed Sep 2025. $15 billion. The original 85 pages were struck within four days as "decidedly improper and impermissible"; the 40-page rewrite was ordered redone as well. A third draft is due August 27, 2026. Repleading. Forbes
Trump v. Global Health Council, Supreme Court of the United States, Sep 2025. Asked to leave about $4 billion in appropriated foreign aid unspent. Granted, 6–3. Stay granted. SCOTUSblog
United States v. Letitia James, E.D. Va., Norfolk Div., filed Oct 2025. Bank fraud, on a $109,600 mortgage, indicted three weeks after "Leticia???" appeared in the same post. Dismissed November 2025 — same order, same prosecutor. Dismissed; on appeal. PBS NewsHour
Trump v. Orr, Supreme Court of the United States, Nov 2025. Asked to enforce the passport policy of birth-sex markers only. Granted, 6–3. Stay granted. SCOTUSblog
Trump v. British Broadcasting Corporation, S.D. Fla., Miami, filed Dec 2025. $10 billion — $5 billion per count — over a speech edit the BBC had already apologized for, at the cost of its director-general. Its filings put the program's United States audience at roughly 285 streams. It is fighting. Pending. Deadline
Trump v. Illinois, Supreme Court of the United States, Dec 2025. Asked to send the National Guard into Chicago. Denied, 6–3: "the government has failed to identify a source of authority that would allow the military to execute the laws in Illinois." Denied. NPR
Trump v. Cook, Supreme Court of the United States, decided Jun 2026. Asked to remove a Federal Reserve governor for cause — the first attempted firing of a governor in the Bank's 111 years. Denied, 5–4; she remains in the seat. Denied. CNBC
Trump v. Slaughter, Supreme Court of the United States, decided Jun 2026. Asked to fire a trade commissioner at will, and to overrule the 1935 precedent that said he couldn't. Granted, 6–3: Humphrey's Executor overruled, ninety-one years on. Won. SCOTUSblog
Trump v. Barbara, Supreme Court of the United States, decided Jun 2026. The birthright-citizenship order, on the merits this time. Struck down, 6–3; the Fourteenth Amendment's first sentence reaffirmed. Lost. NPR
Trump v. California (the mail ballots), Supreme Court of the United States, filed Jul 2026. Asked to restrict the Postal Service's handling of mail ballots ahead of the midterms. A response has been ordered; no ruling. Pending. CNBC
In re the emergency docket, October Term 2024, Supreme Court of the United States. Twenty-seven of the term's fifty-five substantive emergency applications were the administration's; relief was obtained in about ninety percent, and nine percent of those rulings were unanimous. The Bush and Obama administrations filed eight such applications in sixteen years. Filings continue. SCOTUSblog
In re the archive, 1973–2016, various. At least 3,500 legal actions in three decades, per the USA Today census: plaintiff in about 1,900, defendant in about 1,450. The column above is a selection. Counting continues. The Hill
Set in the type traditionally reserved for foreclosures and estate sales. Pending is labeled pending; outcomes are dated; everything here is the public record, and every notice links to it. Docket verified 23 August 2026; dockets move, and this page moves with the next sweep.