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Story · January 24, 2023

Trump Ends Appeal in Fight With New York Attorney General

By The Daily Fuckup Newsroom · From the January 24, 2023 edition

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Correction: Trump and New York Attorney General Letitia James agreed to dismiss his appeal on Jan. 24, 2023. This did not affect James’s separate fraud case, which remained active.

Donald Trump’s legal fight with New York Attorney General Letitia James lost another front on Jan. 24, 2023, when the two sides agreed to end his appeal in federal court.

Court papers in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit show Trump’s lawyers and James’s office filed a stipulation to dismiss the appeal with prejudice, closing out Trump’s bid to revive a lawsuit that had already been thrown out by a judge in May 2022.

The appeal concerned Trump’s earlier federal case against James, not the separate Florida lawsuit he filed later. Trump withdrew that Florida case on Jan. 20, 2023, after a judge sanctioned him and one of his lawyers in an unrelated lawsuit brought against Hillary Clinton and others.

None of those filings changed James’s separate civil fraud case against Trump and his company. That case remained active, along with her broader investigation into Trump’s business practices.

The Jan. 24 filing marked the end of one route Trump had used to try to blunt James’s probe. It left her fraud case in place and removed another challenge from the docket.

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