""Even under the most generous and lenient applications of Rule 8, the complaint is decidedly improper and impermissible," Merryday wrote. "... The reader must endure an allegation of 'the desperate need to defame with a partisan spear rather than report with an authentic looking glass' and an allegation that 'the false narrative about The Apprentice was just the tip of defendants' melting iceberg of falsehoods.'"
""As every lawyer knows (or is presumed to know), a complaint is not a public forum for vituperation and invective - not a protected platform to rage against an adversary," wrote Merryday."
U.S. District Court Judge Steven Merryday dismissed the 85-page, $15 billion defamation complaint against the New York Times, finding it violated Federal Rule 8's requirement that allegations be simple, concise and direct. Merryday described the filing as improper and impermissible, criticizing its rhetorical excesses and inflammatory language, including claims of a partisan effort to defame and metaphors of a "melting iceberg of falsehoods." The judge warned that a complaint is not a forum for vituperation or invective and instructed Trump's lawyers to substantially clean up the pleadings before any hearing.
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