Trump Family Asks Court to Stop Publication of Tell-All by President's Niece
Source: NYT
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President Trumps family is seeking a temporary restraining order to try to block publication of a tell-all book by the presidents niece, Mary L. Trump.
Ms. Trump is the daughter of the presidents late brother, Fred Trump Jr., and her book, Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the Worlds Most Dangerous Man, is scheduled to be published by Simon & Schuster on July 28.
A person familiar with the matter said a request for a temporary restraining order was filed on Tuesday by Mr. Trumps younger brother, Robert S. Trump, in Queens County Surrogates Court, where the estate of the presidents father, Fred Trump Sr., was settled.
The filing is against Ms. Trump and Simon & Schuster, and it seeks to stop publication on the grounds that Ms. Trump is violating a nondisclosure agreement related to the settlement of the estate.
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FoxNewsSucks
(10,429 posts)2naSalit
(86,524 posts)Nothing with them should be honored.
mucifer
(23,525 posts)mac56
(17,566 posts)dem4evah
(75 posts)but not like these goofs. My gosh, what a bunch of absolute knuckle draggers they are. They TRULY deserve each other.
Tarc
(10,476 posts)One pursues damages if an action is deemed to have broken an NDA.
I don't think thy can be used to preempt an action, can they?
forgotmylogin
(7,524 posts)I'm sure there's some kind of damages specified in I45's standard NDA. Did he just blanket make his entire family sign them?
obamanut2012
(26,067 posts)And, all an NDA means is that you will get hit with a huge fine that may or not be found to be legit in civil court. It doesn't mean you can stop someone from saying something, only that the person doing so can be sued and the court asked that they pay them.
I have a feeling Mary Trump already has lots of folks telling her they will pay the multi-million-dollar penalty.
bdamomma
(63,836 posts)censoring books are we? no freedom of speech anymore, we are teetering on some dark times.
tanyev
(42,544 posts)Usually a fine, right? Im sure Ms. Trump could raise anything she needed on GoFundMe.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,664 posts)it might be the return of the settlement. But courts don't like NDAs and tend to construe them against the party that demanded them. Also, they are often limited in their duration.
rpannier
(24,329 posts)The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,664 posts)These agreements are almost always construed against the person who drafted and demanded it, and they provide for an award of money damages if breached. A nondisclosure agreement is a contract, and the remedy for a breach of contract is damages - either consequential or liquidated (previously agreed-upon) damages - possibly giving back the money from the estate. There might be some exceptions where business trade secrets are involved; a business could write a clause into an NDA where the parties agree that the disclosure of trade secrets would cause irreparable harm and that an injunction would be an agreed-upon remedy if one party was threatening to disclose that kind of information. But where the deal is just the settlement of an estate among family members, there are not likely to be the kind of business trade secrets that need to be protected.
Furthermore, Trump, as president, is a representative of the government, and I'm sure that in seeking to suppress the contents in that book he's acting at least in part in that capacity because he wants to protect his presidency. If so, his petition constitutes a prior restraint in violation of the First Amendment. Prior restraints are almost never allowed - not even in the case of the Pentagon Papers or John Bolton's book. I don't think there are any national security secrets in Mary Trump's book.
hedda_foil
(16,371 posts)The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,664 posts)That whole family is probably a bunch of vampires. Maybe Robert did it at His Lardship's behest to get around the prior restraint thing.
hedda_foil
(16,371 posts)ChazInAz
(2,564 posts)generalbetrayus
(507 posts)Does Jared have to sign a nondisclosure agreement every time he jumps in the sack with Ivanka with lewd intent?
SergeStorms
(19,192 posts)exactly three times. Three children, three sessions of "love" making. Those three sessions were by appointment, and were timed. Her heart belongs to Daddy.
Aristus
(66,312 posts)n/t
SergeStorms
(19,192 posts)I'd change my name if I were unfortunate enough to be born with the name, "Trump". I'd change it to something not so offensive, like "Manson", or "Hitler".
dem4evah
(75 posts)such upstanding folks. Never been more humiliated to be an American. Kinda glad we can't travel for a while. When I start traveling again and someone asks 'where are you from'? I'll just say Canada. It's just easier.
Besides, if he cheats his way to 'winning' in November I'll be headed north of the border anyway. I live in West Michigan. Canada is about 2 hours away. Not much of a move or sacrifice and I can keep my current job. I have to say, wouldn't miss much about this country right now. IF I long for the beautiful beaches of Michigan it's a 2 hour car ride away...no biggie.
SunSeeker
(51,550 posts)Same with Trump's assertion that Bolton's book discloses classified info.
Solly Mack
(90,762 posts)so people would think it wasn't him at the root of it.
lolololol
His followers will fall for that but no one else will.
BlueIdaho
(13,582 posts)The Manson family had stronger connections than Freds litter of grifters.
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(107,884 posts)vsrazdem
(2,177 posts)she mentions the estate at all. She certainly has enough information regarding the rest of Trump's life without revealing aspects of the settlement.
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niyad
(113,239 posts)Obviously cut from the same cloth.