Justin S
Mike Masnick ✅I see we're in the "FO" part following the "FA" part.
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.flsd.610157/gov.uscourts.flsd.610157.302.0.pdf
Steve Torrente@mmasnick Can she, like, bill her client for that?
Half Cocked Law@theLastTheorist @mmasnick No. They're jointly and severally liable, so everyone is responsible just as much as everyone else. Which, if Ms. Habba and her firm want to continue practicing law, means that they are probably going to pay because God knows Trump isn't good for it.
Matt Waters@halfcocked @theLastTheorist @mmasnick If nothing else, I'd be quite interested in how all the levy/garnishment actions work out against Trump, even though surely the attorneys would be much easier (assuming they have the assets).
Wren"She also indicated that, while Mr. Trump doubted the suit would succeed, she nevertheless
“fought” to pursue it:"(p4).
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.flsd.610157/gov.uscourts.flsd.610157.302.0.pdf
There's a whole lotta weird mixed in this salad.
Carlo Piana 😼@theLastTheorist @mmasnick good luck with that, considering past reports. She might have a "DJT exclusive access to Mara Lago venue" worth a third of a million, plus 1/5 of a 3 million worth racing horse (now dead), even if she were entitled.
Ken White@mmasnick I don’t think I’ve ever seen sanctions that high.
Gene Parmesan
Peter Murray@GeneParmesan @Popehat @mmasnick Presumably, this is can be appealed, though, so the world keeps spinning for a bit longer before this reaches finality.
Nick 'The Viking'@nlarson830 @Popehat @mmasnick
We've waited a looong time for this laugh. Enjoy it guilt-free. 😁
Mike Cohen@Popehat he won’t pay.
Mike Garuccio
Jennifer Kayla | Theogrin 🦊@mgaruccio @mikec415 @Popehat
Unfortunately, there's always another sucker, another person who genuinely falls victim to the man's cult of personality and thinks that they, alone, have the legal chops to successfully prosecute a case with less evidentiary standing than Russell's Teapot.
Unfortunately, there's always another sucker, another person who genuinely falls victim to the man's cult of personality and thinks that they, alone, have the legal chops to successfully prosecute a case with less evidentiary standing than Russell's Teapot.
Hard as it is to believe, by the time the suit was filed Trump had already shown a long-standing commitment to never settling his obligations, and still they lined up in the hopes that he might invite him into his circle of illusory wealth and fame, like Bernie Madoff but with even less justification.
P.T. Barnum never actually said "There's a sucker born every minute," but the phrase certainly seems to hold true, even amongst those smart enough to pass the bar.
Rhett Derrick
ml8_ml8
Dan@Danielsand @Popehat pretty much, I believe.
JenLWhat gets me is that most of the top-flight attorneys on the defense willingly took hourly cuts from 28% to *66%*, I assume to preclude Trump and Habba from griping overmuch about pay scales. (There was still a token objection over block billing.)
They could have probably justifiably bumped that up to a million and a half, and after the shenanigans displayed throughout, it's not hard to imagine Middlebrooks handing it to them.
Dan Lather@mmasnick It's beautiful.
Fraud Guy
Pxtl@mmasnick so for Trump this is couch-cushion money but I'm gathering this is super bad for the law firm?
Ariaflame
Kyle Anderson@mmasnick Incredible stuff! Very glad this court doesn't bow to rhetoric like a good chunk of the public seems to.
@mmasnick Imagine what it must be like for Habba.
Not only does she have these sanctions hanging over her head, she knows with absolute certainty that her client will never, ever pay his share of the fine.
She is going to have to pony up the money and ocne again he will get off without any consequences.
At this point, it’s safe to assume every one associated with him knows he’s not going to pay them. They’ve accepted “other arrangements,” right?
Hugo Slabbert ⚠️
Gemma 👽Judges get angry when you lie to them.
paul
RuTemple@mmasnick The whole was a delicious read.
@mmasnick the Judge was visibly irritated by the sloppy conduct of plaintiff lawyers and the personal attacks to he himself. I wonder if this will have an impact on an appeal. Though the order seems entirely accurate, there are a couple if shortcuts taken here and there, but I have insufficient experience in US litigation to judge.
Drooling Fan Girl@mmasnick your pardon, but what does “fo” and “fa” stand for?
Max_well 
@drooling_fan_girl @mmasnick F*ck around and find out
RojCowlesSo would this influence potential sanctions in the other cases cited to show a pattern of frivolous proceedings brought by Trump and legal team, Pulitzer, Twitter and CNN?
Just wondering if this is only the first of a series of 7 figure payouts incoming on Mr Trump and his learned friends.
@RojCowles who knows. judges very rarely grant sanctions, but in other cases we have seen a kind of "damn breaks" nature where once one judge does, others follow. Of course, with Trump, who knows.
Mohamed Al-Hajamy 💾@mmasnick Is it true that the court only refers to itself in the first person if you really fuck around?
Patti Vaughn
Kevin Carson@mmasnick It's hilarious that Trump immediately dropped another of his frivolous lawsuits after this ruling.
@KevinCarson1 can't afford more sanctions...
Christian Crumlish@mmasnick @cda …and well looky what have we got here? someone suddenly getting cold feed about abusing the justice system? https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/20/politics/donald-trump-letitia-james-trust-lawsuit/index.html