9 entries in the ledger
The Supreme Court on Monday, Aug. 17, declined to reconsider Trump’s appeal of the $5 million jury verdict finding that he sexually abused the writer E. Jean Carroll in the 1990s and later defamed her. It was the second...
The BBC asked a federal court on Friday, Aug. 14 for permission to serve subpoenas by alternative means on Donald Trump Jr., Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner in the president's $10 billion defamation suit over a 2024...
Trump asked the Supreme Court on July 28, 2026 to overturn the $83 million defamation judgment won by writer E. Jean Carroll, arguing that the Court's 2024 presidential immunity decision shields him. "This is the first...
On July 7, 2026, U.S. District Judge Thomas Barber ruled in favor of The Washington Post, dismissing a $3.8 billion defamation lawsuit that Trump Media and Technology Group had filed in 2023 over an article about a...
On June 29, 2026, the Supreme Court declined to take up President Trump's appeal of a civil jury verdict that found he sexually abused writer E. Jean Carroll in the 1990s and later defamed her. As is customary, the court...
On April 20, 2026, FBI Director Kash Patel filed a $250 million defamation suit against The Atlantic in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, suing as a private citizen and Nevada resident. The complaint...
On April 13, 2026, U.S. District Judge Darrin P. Gayles in Florida dismissed President Trump's $10 billion defamation lawsuit against Rupert Murdoch, Dow Jones and the Wall Street Journal over the paper's July 2025...
In September 2025, President Trump filed a $15 billion defamation and libel lawsuit against The New York Times and Penguin Random House, along with four Times reporters, over articles and a book examining how he built...
On July 18, 2025, President Trump filed a defamation lawsuit seeking at least $10 billion against The Wall Street Journal, its parent News Corp, publisher Dow Jones, owner Rupert Murdoch, and two reporters, over a report...