Judge Rules That Mistake In Trump NDA Makes It Void, Could Apply To Others
Source: Talking Points Memo
By Kate Riga | August 17, 2018 10:05 am
Judge Arlene Bluth of the New York State Supreme Court ruled Thursday that errors in the wording of a nondisclosure agreement between President Donald Trump’s team and a former campaign staffer make it much smaller in scope, thus not preventing the case from going to open court, according to a Thursday Yahoo News report.
The initial lawsuit was filed by Jessica Denson, a former campaign aide who said that she experienced “harassment and sexual discrimination” while working on the 2016 bid. Per Yahoo, she is suing for $25 million for being subjected to “severe and pervasive slander, aggravated harassment, attempted theft, cyberbullying, and sexual discrimination and harassment” at the hands of staffers including Camilo Sandoval, her supervisor then and the current acting chief information officer at the VA.
Campaign lawyers countered by demanding $1.5 million in damages, alleging that she broke the signed agreement by publishing “confidential information and disparaging statements.” They then moved to take the case to private arbitration, claiming that she agreed to that when she signed the contract. As opposed to a normal trial, records from arbitration can be sealed. Bluth ruled that, due to various wording errors and incorrect phrasing in the NDA, it did not prevent Denson from taking her case public.
This could have far-ranging effects, as the NDA Denson signed seems to be similar to the one Trump uses in the White House and at the Trump Organization, along with his campaign. The ruling could be especially topical, as the Trump administration is currently trying to silence former aide Omarosa Manigault Newman by claiming that she violated the terms of the NDA.
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oh i would love it if his whole house of cards fell apart due to a lawyer's drafting error.
now i'm really curious to see the actual text....
"Bluth ruled that, due to various wording errors and incorrect phrasing in the NDA, it did not prevent Denson from taking her case public."
No English 101 classes on sentence structure on how to construct proper wording in a sentence....................either in high school, grade school, or college and laws school.......................must have been using a NDA cheat sheet to pass the exams.............................
They are so involved in their corrupt tactics that they forgot to have any principles, so they just threw words on a piece of paper without "proof reading"...........................the first item that teacher tells the student before handing in the work...............
And you make a very good point, they quit holding themselves accountable a very long time ago..........
Don't you just wonder who wrote up the NDA? Cohen maybe? LOLOLOL 
They do not work directly for the Trump Organization or any one person. This woman Jessica Denson is suing over her employment as a campaign worker, so at that time she did have a private employer. Contracts and NDAs can be enforced for private employers if they've been written correctly and if they are agreed by both parties.
My point is that any NDA issued to a federal government employee isn't worth the paper it's written on. They can all be struck down in court and they should be. This is bullshit, these people do not work for Donald Trump. He's not a king and he's not above the law.
