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1984Trump files his first lawsuit against an architect who criticized his plan to build "the world's tallest tower." chicagomag.com (See also Feuds)
1984.10.14Trump sues The Chicago Tribune for $500 million for making fun of his plan to build the worlds tallest tower. nytimes.com
1988.04.05Trump is forced to pay $750,000 after he violated Antitrust regulations through perjury and identity theft to steal two separate companies. apnewsarchive.com (See also Criminality)
1988.06.07Trump sues small Georgia business for making “Trump Cards” despite the fact they weren’t even referencing his name. articles.latimes.com
1989Trump sues a small travel agency for coincidentally sharing his name. nydailynews.com
1990Trump hires a financial analyst to gauge his Taj Mahal Casino project, the analyst says that the project would fail by the end of that year. Trump sues the analyst demanding he says it will succeed. By the end of the year the Casino declares bankruptcy. barrons.com
1995.02.18Trump sues the owner of the Empire State Building as retaliation for her not letting him sell the building because he doesn't own it. articles.orlandosentinel.com
1996.03.08Trump sues a small Indian restaurant for sharing the name of one of his Casinos. That restaurants name? “The Taj Mahal” web.archive.org
1997Jill Harth files a sexual harassment lawsuit, which among other things claims Trump attempted to rape her and refused to hire black models. dailymail.co.uk (See also Racism, Misogyny, Sexism, Women, Black Americans, Criminality)
1999.03.08Trump settles lawsuit claiming he stole $300,000 from workers paychecks. nydailynews.com (See also Criminality)
2000.03.12Court case implicated Trump in fraud, money-laundering, conspiracy, perjury and the theft of trade secrets. articles.philly.com (See also Criminality)
2001.07Trump is sued for refusing to pay broker fees to a group who helped facilitate a $4.5 million dollar deal between him and Saudi Arabia. deadstate.org (See also Trump Business, Saudi Arabia)
2005.10Author Timothy O’Brien calls Trump a millionaire instead of a billionaire, Trump responds by suing him for $5 billion dollars. nationalreview.com
2006Trump is accused of committing felony Obstruction of Justice by destroying thousands of emails subpoenaed by a federal judge during legal hearings against him. usatoday.com (See also Criminality, Hypocrisy)
2008Trump takes a $40 million dollar loan from Deutsche Bank and when they ask him to repay the loan he refuses and sues them for $3 billion dollars. nydailynews.com (See also Trump Business, Criminality)
2013.02.06Trumps demands for Obama to release his birth certificate to prove he was born in America, Comedian Bill Maher responds saying Trump should release his to prove his mother had not mated with an orangutan. Trump responds by suing Bill Maher for 5 million dollars. cnn.com (See also Belief in Conspiracy Theories)
2013.02.19Trump threatens to sue internet campaigner for $25 million because they called for a boycott of his brand. theguardian.com
2013.05.1413 people file suit alleging Trump's Russian business partner who has known mob ties financed human trafficking & child prostitution rings. courthousenews.com (See also Russia, Criminality)
2013.07.05A court sides with Trump after he sues a Miss USA contestant for $5 million because she called the contest, "rigged" on Facebook. nydailynews.com (See also Fueds)
Trump's lawyer later bragged about how he helped destroy the woman's life.
2015.06.30Donald Trump Sues Univision For $500 Million claiming they are, "suppressing his freedom of speech" by cutting ties with him after he made racist comments. npr.org (See also 2016 Campaign, Feuds, Trump Business)
2015.06.30Trump sues Univision for $500 million for refusing to air his pageant on their network after he made racist comments against Mexicans. npr.org
2015.08.01Trump sues employee $10 million for quitting. politico.com
2015.08.06Trump sues two celebrity chefs who no longer want to be a part of his new hotel. businessinsider.com (See also Fueds, 2016 Campaign)
2015.10.19Trump sues his own union because they reveal that he doesn’t stay in his own hotels. courthousenews.com
2016Hundreds claim Trump refuses to pay bills. nbcnews.com (See also Trump Business, Criminality)
2016.10.13Trump threatens to sue The New York Times over publishing article where they interviewed two women who claim Trump sexually assaulted them. nytimes.com (See also 2016 Campaign, Fueds, Women, Attempts to Discredit Media, Misogyny)
2016.10.25Trump has 75 pending lawsuits against him. usatoday.com
2016.12.07Judge refuses request to dismiss 2013 Lawsuit against Trump over stealing $6 million in refundable deposits from Gold Club members. realtime.blog.palmbeachpost.com (See also Trump Business, Presidential Transition)
2017.01.22A team of prominent constitutional scholars, Supreme Court litigators and former White House ethics lawyers intends to file a lawsuit Monday morning alleging that President Trump is violating the Constitution by allowing his hotels and other business operations to accept payments from foreign governments. nytimes.com (See also Conflicts of Interest, Constitutional Issues)
2017.01.23Trump sued for ethic violations over foreign payments to his firms. reuters.com (See also First 100 Days)
2017.01.31Dozens of lawsuits were filed against immigration order. clearinghouse.net (See also Muslim Immigration Ban, John Kelley, Immigrants, First 100 Days, Department of Homeland Security, Department of Justice, John Kelly)
2017.02.01Trump National Golf Club in Jupiter, Florida has been ordered to pay $5.7 million to former members as part of a class action lawsuit. money.cnn.com (See also First 100 Days)
2017.02.02Trump faces an unprecedented number of lawsuits after only two weeks in office. npr.org (See also First 100 Days)
2017.02.03Will Eric Schneiderman, New York's Attorney General, take down Trump? politico.com (See also Trump University, Scott Pruitt, Rex Tillerson, Steven Mnuchin, Jared Kushner)
2017.02.07Melania Trump missing out on "once-in-a-lifetime opportunity" to make millions, lawsuit says. washingtonpost.com (See also First 100 Days, Melania Trump)
2017.02.08Three advocacy groups file federal lawsuit challenging Trump's executive order that requires two federal regulations to be eliminated for every new regulation passed. washingtonpost.com (See also First 100 Days, Constitutional Issues)
2017.02.099th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upholds suspension of Trump’s Muslim immigration ban. washingtonpost.com (See also First 100 Days, Muslim Immigration Ban, Immigration, Immigrants)
2017.02.09Ninth Circuit rightly and unanimously rejects Trump administration's extravagant claims of virtually unreviewable power. Great news.— Laurence Tribe (@tribelaw) twitter.com (See also First 100 Days, Muslim Immigration Ban, Muslims)
2017.02.15FBI releases records on an investigation conducted in the 1970s into alleged racial discrimination in the rental of apartments from Trump's real estate company. politico.com (See also Racism)
2017.02.15U.S. immigration authorities have detained a 23-year-old Mexican man who was brought to the United States illegally as a child and given a work permit during the Obama administration mobile.reuters.com (See also DACA, First 100 Days, Immigration)
2017.02.16Department of Justice submits brief to Ninth Circuit Court which states in part “the president intends in the near future to rescind the [travel] order and replace it with a new, substantially revised executive order.” cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov (See also First 100 Days, Muslim Immigration Ban)
2017.02.16Trump says he will issue a new order after a "very bad decision" blocked his initial travel ban. latimes.com (See also Muslim Immigration Ban)
2017.03.10Canada's highest court upholds ruling that Donald Trump mislead investors. independent.co.uk (See also Canada, Trump Business, First 100 Days)
2017.03.28Trump's lawyer plans to have a sexual assault lawsuit against Trump thrown out of court by arguing the Supremacy Clause means Trump is immune from lawsuits since he is the president. resistancereport.com (See also First 100 Days, Misogyny, Women)
2017.04.03A Federal Judge moves forward to allow lawsuit against Trump for inciting violence. cnn.com
2017.06.14Nearly 200 Democratic members of Congress agreed to file a lawsuit Wednesday against Trump alleging that by retaining interests in a global business empire he has violated constitutional restrictions on taking gifts and benefits from foreign leaders. washingtonpost.com (See also Legal Activity, Conflicts of Interest)
2017.11.27Papers in a lawsuit involving work on Trump Tower’s site were unsealed by a judge last week, revealing that Donald Trump paid over $1 Million in a labor settlement due to employing 200 undocumented workers in 12 hour shifts, without gloves, hard hats, or masks, paid as little as $4 an hour, less than half the union wage, if they got paid at all. nytimes.com (See also Legal Activity, Immigrants, Trump Business)
2018.07.09Donald Trump's chauffeur of more than 25 years has filed a lawsuit alleging that he was never paid nearly $175,000 in overtime wages, a violation of state and federal labor laws. buzzfeed.com (See also Trump Business, Legal Activity)