Those sanctioned include Powell, L Lin Wood and seven other lawyers who were part of the lawsuit filed on behalf of six Republican voters after Joe Biden’s victory. Photograph: Jonathan Ernst/Reuters
Lawsuit brought by the Trump campaign against a Wisconsin TV station for airing an advertisement criticizing his COVID-19 response. Dismissed in federal court after the election for lack of standing. Donald J. Trump for President, Inc. v. WP Company LLC d/b/a Washington Post Remains pending as of June 2021.
^ "Attorney General Underwood Announces Lawsuit Against Donald J. Trump Foundation And Its Board Of Directors For Extensive And Persistent Violations Of State And Federal Law" (Press release). New York State Office of the Attorney General. Archived from the original on May 8, 2019.
Two of the most prominent attorneys in the pro-Trump camp — Dallas-based Sidney Powell and Atlanta-based L. Lin Wood — are among the lawyers who brought the unsuccessful suit and whose conduct is under scrutiny by U.S. District Court Judge Linda Parker.
In March 2021, U.S. Representative Eric Swalwell filed a lawsuit against Donald Trump, Donald Trump Jr., Rudy Giuliani and U.S. Representative Mo Brooks (R-AL) for their actions on the day the U.S. Capitol was stormed. In March 2021, two Capitol Police Officers filed a lawsuit against Donald Trump.
Trump and his team filed dozens of false and frivolous lawsuits regarding the procedures in the 2020 presidential election and Joe Biden's victory. Georgia Cobb County and DeKalb County filed lawsuits to recover costs associated with frivolous lawsuits.
Trump v. Vance - In July 2020, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 7–2 that the State of New York could issue a grand-jury subpoena of the President's financial records. The request was determined not to violate Article II or the Supremacy Clause of the United States Constitution.
On December 18, 2020, the Supreme Court dismissed the case.
League of Conservation Voters lawsuit challenging Trump's attempt to undo a ban on oil and gas drilling in certain areas of the Atlantic and Arctic Oceans. District court ruled that Trump overstepped his constitutional authority and violated federal law.
In February, the Georgia State Bar sent Wood a 1,600-plus-page complaint proposing bar discipline against him . Many of the instances of alleged misconduct that were cited stemmed from the flurry of election-related suits, including the one in Michigan.
“I played absolutely no role in the drafting of the complaint, just to be clear,” Wood told Parker.
Kaplan remains most celebrated for the Edie Windsor case that, in 2013, successfully struck down the Defense of Marriage Act, paving the way with stunning alacrity for the legalization of same-sex marriage two years later to the day.
The Mary Trump brief is a doozy. “For Donald J. Trump, his sister Maryanne, and their late brother Robert, fraud was not just the family business — it was a way of life,” the complaint begins, before alleging three duplicitous schemes, “The Grift,” “The Devaluing” and “The Squeeze-Out.”. Advertisement.
Instead, in the summer of 2017, Kaplan launched her own boutique firm, still a rarity among female corporate lawyers, creating an unusual model that combines lucrative commercial litigation with a progressive public-interest practice.
Citing logistical challenges that were better served by local counsel, Kaplan’s firm no longer represents Heard in the defamation case, which is scheduled for trial in May. Yet Kaplan continues to offer Heard legal advice on the case and other legal matters. They speak regularly, sometimes daily.
Oregon vs. Azar: Weiser signed Colorado onto the multistate lawsuit that seeks to overturn the Trump administration’s so-called Title X “Gag Rule.” The policy restricts what health care providers can say about abortion to patients who receive family planning and other health care services under the Title X, national family planning program.
U.S.A vs. Safehouse: Weiser has filed a friend-of-the-court brief supporting Safehouse, a Philadelphia nonprofit, in its legal battle with the federal government over its effort to open a supervised drug consumption site.