IN THE NEWS---TRUMP HALF-BILLION DOLLAR CIVIL FRAUD PENALTY THROWN OUT BY APPEALS COURT

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  A New York state appeals court voided a more than $500 million civil fraud penalty imposed on President Donald Trump...The appeals court said “injunctive relief” ordered by the trial judge in the case was “well crafted to curb defendants’ business culture” at the Trump Organization....But the order that “directs that defendants pay nearly half a billion dollars to the State of New York, is an excessive fine that violates the Eighth Amendment of the United States Constitution,” the appeals court said. MORE AT Trump half-billion-dollar civil fraud penalty thrown out by appeals court

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Appeals Court Lays Waste to Letitia James' Legal Assault on Trump

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Thursday’s decision was a blow to James — whose office prosecuted Trump — and to Engoron as at least one of the appellate judges found Engoron made “errors” in his rulings on the case. Trump's massive $500M civil fraud fine in AG Tish James' case thrown out by NY appeals court