Federal court rules hotel and restaurant owners can sue Trump over unfair competition

[turbinetree]

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Associated Press -
September 13, 2019

Trump will face a lawsuit over his 'vast, complicated, and secret' business interests.

A lawsuit by restaurant workers and a prominent restaurateur and hotelier who say Donald Trump has business conflicts that violate the Constitution was restored Friday by a federal appeals court after a judge on a lower court dismissed it.

A three-judge panel of the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan, on a 2-1 vote, rejected a judge's finding that the plaintiffs did not have standing to sue. At issue is the little-known domestic and foreign emoluments clause of the U.S. Constitution.

The appeals court noted that the plaintiffs, including owners of high-end hotels and restaurants in New York City and Washington, say they are harmed by competing with Trump's businesses over the exact same customer base when customers know that giving business to Trump's establishments might secure his favor in governmental decisions.

It said the lower-court judge effectively insisted that the plaintiffs prove the facts necessary to win at trial before they had a chance to gather all of them.

https://shareblue.com/donald-trump-emoluments-clause-federal-lawsuit-new-york/

Hey Don, yes I want to be like my father / also known as junior........................did you check out what the airforce said about Scotland and their visits, better yet did you take look at Pounce ...I mean Pence's little jaunts while in Scotland...................and most importantly did you ever read the Constitution..........I think not..............

[Freethinker65]

1. Yep. All they needed was someone with standing/that had been harmed