Exclusive: Trump's 3,500 lawsuits unprecedented for a presidential nominee

[TexasTowelie]

Donald Trump is a fighter, famous for legal skirmishes over everything from his golf courses to his tax bills to Trump University. But until now, it hasn’t been clear precisely how litigious he is and what that might portend for a Trump presidency.

An exclusive USA TODAY analysis of legal filings across the United States finds that the presumptive Republican presidential nominee and his businesses have been involved in at least 3,500 legal actions in federal and state courts during the past three decades. They range from skirmishes with casino patrons to million-dollar real estate suits to personal defamation lawsuits.

The sheer volume of lawsuits is unprecedented for a presidential nominee. No candidate of a major party has had anything approaching the number of Trump’s courtroom entanglements.

Just since he announced his candidacy a year ago, at least 70 new cases have been filed, about evenly divided between lawsuits filed by him and his companies and those filed against them. And the records review found at least 50 civil lawsuits remain open even as he moves toward claiming the nomination at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland in seven weeks. On Tuesday, court documents were released in one of the most dramatic current cases, filed in California by former students accusing Trump University of fraudulent and misleading behavior.

Read more: http://www.citizen-times.com/story/news/politics/elections/2016/06/01/donald-trump-lawsuits-legal-battles/84995854/

[Manifestor_of_Light]

1. They have a name for that: vexatious litigation.

Remedy: Summary Judgment for the defendants. That means there is no issue of fact or law raised in the petition to be settled by the court. Case dismissed.

[3catwoman3]

2. Wouldn't 3500 lawsuits be...

...unprecedented for ANY individual, presidential candidate or not?

[muriel_volestrangler]

3. It qualifies you to be president of Turkey

Turkey’s justice minister says as many as 1,845 cases have been opened against people accused of insulting President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan since he came to office in 2014.

Erdoğan has been accused of aggressively using a previously seldom-used law that bars insults to the president, as a way to muffle dissent. Those who have gone on trial include celebrities, journalists and even schoolchildren.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/mar/02/turkeys-justice-minister-defends-allowing-1845-insult-cases-to-go-ahead

[3catwoman3]

4. I could see Trump...

...doing exactly that. He is always whining about how he is being treated.