Now on msnbc, Judge Curiel clears path for Trump lawsuit.

[nolabear]

Take that, you orange hate mongering creep. And Hillary, Girl, USE it!

[DCBob]

1. What lawsuit?

[auntpurl]

2. I'm assuming this is the Trump U thing, because that's the same judge.

Apparently, I'm just going to follow you around today, answering all your queries.

[NurseJackie]

5. I'd like to know more about this wonderful service you provide. How much do you charge?

[auntpurl]

12. I have to go to bed now Jackie!

I can't be everywhere at once!

[DCBob]

18. Hehe.. thanks!

[L. Coyote]

21. Don't you mean which one of the lawsuits?

[Hortensis]

27. Exactly. JUST Trump University has 3 big civil actions,

this class action against Trump under the RICO federal racketeering law, which goes to trial November 28, after the election. There'll be a pre-trial hearing in August, then nothing until Trump appears in court.

There's a second California one, and the State of NY is bringing a third. The latter two don't have court dates set yet.

[OnDoutside]

3. Trump University Judge Says He Plans to Let Suit Go to Trial ->

Just hours after Donald Trump accepted the Republican presidential nomination in Cleveland, a federal judge in San Diego said he plans to allow former students who claim to have been cheated by Trump University to take the billionaire candidate to trial.

Trump’s lawyers argue that sales "puffery" doesn’t amount to racketeering in an attempt to end one of two class-action lawsuits by former Trump University enrollees who claim they were cheated with false promises into paying as much as $35,000 for real-estate seminars and workshops.

U.S. District Judge Gonzalo Curiel said at the start of Friday’s hearing that his tentative ruling is to reject Trump’s request and let the case go forward. Curiel said he will issue a final ruling later. He’s set a Nov. 28 start date for the other trial.

Trump has already injected politics into the case, claiming earlier rulings by the judge, born in Indiana to Mexican immigrants, were retribution for the candidate’s pledge to build a wall between the U.S. and Mexico. Separately, Curiel is also considering whether videos of Trump’s sworn testimony should be made public over the billionaire’s objection.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-07-22/trump-university-judge-says-he-plans-to-let-lawsuit-go-ahead

[yeoman6987]

6. November 28 th

After election. Ugh.

[OnDoutside]

7. Can still be used ;)

[yeoman6987]

9. I wish it was criminal and not class action. We'd have more fun that way.

[OnDoutside]

10. +1 True.

[Lord Magus]

17. It's pathetic that the judge gave that huge gift to Trump.

There was absolutely no reason to delay the trial until after the election. And this is the judge Trump says is biased against him?

[Hortensis]

28. Unfortunate, but innocent until proven guilty and

putting a presidential candidate on trial before the election would inappropriately influence the election.

The press should be getting interested before the election, though. You know the sort of shows time-share hawkers put on, with seminars, information packets, and so on? Trump U hired one of the companies that designs and produces those things to provide the "lesson" plans and materials for students and the sales materials, strategies and spiels for the speakers/"professors."

Btw, Trump's already lost his bid not to have to reveal his net worth in court.

[Lord Magus]

30. Innocent until proven guilty doesn't apply in civil cases.

Because "proof" isn't required to find in favor of the plaintiffs. Just a preponderance of the evidence.

[Brother Buzz]

24. I'm not a lawyer, nor do I play one on television, but I suspect....

there will be plenty of pretrial motions, and every one will be dutifully reported on the front page, above the fold; the backstory of the Trump University scam will be told, again, and again, and again.

You know what I mean, Vern?

[yeoman6987]

26. Sounds wonderful to me. May even end up better.

[tallahasseedem]

4. Trump is going to lose it...

He will not be able to keep quiet...especially given his first speech after being nominated was used to go after Cruz.

[C_U_L8R]

8. Lock him up!!!

Hahahahahahahahahaha

[sarae]

13. ROFL

That man should be in stripes!
#DonaldTrumpForPrison

[yallerdawg]

11. Could a president pick a VP...

then be convicted of a crime - resign - and be pardoned by the new president?

Too fanciful?

Too much like a John Grisham novel?

[SheriffBob]

16. it happened to nixon

when ford pardoned him.

[malthaussen]

19. Ah, you forget, Mr Ford pardoned Mr Nixon...

... before the latter was even formally indicted, let alone convicted. So Mr Pence would have to pardon Mr Trump quickly to match that.

-- Mal

[yeoman6987]

22. True but this is a civil suit. Worst thing for trump. Losing money

[NBachers]

20. Yes, but you'd have to factor in the conviction of the prior vice president on racketeering charges

to make this an ever further more unlikely situation. Things like that are too far-fetched for movies or political thrillers. They'd never happen in real life.

[onecent]

14. Finally this judge has his stand in with the CROOKED Trump!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[GulfCoast66]

15. You just Trump is going to attack

Hell, he is still after Cruz. Would love him replaying the whole Mexican judge thing about the time Hillary is announcing a person of Spanish heritage as VP.

[Mc Mike]

23. Release dRumpf's videotaped depositions!

[Peacetrain]

25. Finally!!!

[Hortensis]

29. Trump lost another case DURING the convention. LOL. OMG.

A small but really slimy one. This is one of dozens of stories of cheating and defrauding, or attempting to in this case.

Miami Herald: Judge orders Trump to pay nearly $300,000 in attorney’s fees in Doral painter’s lawsuit

While developer Donald Trump was busy getting the Republican Party’s presidential nomination this week, he was losing big in a Miami-Dade County courtroom.

Circuit Court Judge Jorge Cueto, presiding over a lawsuit related to unpaid bills brought by a local paint store against the Trump National Doral Miami golf resort, ordered the billionaire politician’s company to pay the Doral-based mom-and-pop shop nearly $300,000 in attorney’s fees.

All because, according to the lawsuit, Trump allegedly tried to stiff The Paint Spot on its last payment of $34,863 on a $200,000 contract for paint used in the renovation of the home of golf’s famed Blue Monster two years ago.

Trump National’s insistence that it had “paid enough” for the paint despite a contract, according to the lawsuit, caused The Paint Spot to slap a lien on the property and Cueto to order the foreclosure sale of the resort.

In time, Donald Trump’s company got the judge to cancel the June 28 courthouse auction after it placed the $34,000 in escrow, and the case was put on hold while Trump National’s owner, Trump Endeavor, considered an appeal.

But the lien remained.

“I’m happy I have a judgment,” said Juan Carlos Enriquez, owner of The Paint Spot. “But he hasn’t paid yet."

Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/ent-columns-blogs/jose-lambiet/article91353232.html#storylink=cpy