May 16, 2025
Donald Trump renewed a push Thursday to dismiss the defamation case the Central Park Five brought over comments he made while campaigning, arguing that his remarks that they "pled guilty" were immune from liability under Pennsylvania's Uniform Public Expression Protection Act.
May 02, 2025
A Pennsylvania federal judge on Friday denied President Donald Trump's request for $53,000 in attorney fees and costs for his counsel's work in the Central Park Five defamation lawsuit against him over comments made about their prosecution during a presidential debate.
April 25, 2025
President Donald Trump says his attorneys from Dhillon Law Group Inc. are owed more than $53,000 in attorney's fees and costs from the Central Park Five after a Pennsylvania federal judge tossed most of the charges from their suit earlier this month.
April 10, 2025
A Pennsylvania federal judge on Thursday trimmed claims from the Central Park Five's defamation lawsuit against President Donald Trump but said that the men, wrongfully convicted of assault and rape 35 years ago, could refine their allegations in another complaint.
April 02, 2025
A lawyer for President Donald Trump urged a federal judge Wednesday to dismiss a defamation lawsuit from the "Central Park Five," saying his remarks during a 2024 debate that the five wrongly convicted men had pled guilty to assaulting and raping a woman in 1989 — when in reality they maintained their innocence — were taken out of context.
January 15, 2025
Several free speech advocacy groups and the American Civil Liberties Union of Pennsylvania urged a federal judge Wednesday to apply the Keystone State's anti-SLAPP law in a defamation suit brought against President-elect Donald Trump by the so-called Central Park Five but took neither party's side on dismissal.
November 20, 2024
President-elect Donald J. Trump has told a Pennsylvania federal judge that a lawsuit brought by the Central Park Five should be dismissed, calling their allegations that he defamed them with comments about their criminal case "meritless" and saying his statements are protected as public expression under the state's anti-SLAPP statute.
October 21, 2024
The Central Park Five — New Yorkers who were wrongfully convicted as young teens of assaulting and raping a woman in Central Park — have hit former President Donald Trump with a defamation suit, saying he falsely claimed at a recent debate that they pled guilty, decades after calling for the boys to be executed.