Judge Allows Florida Case Against Trump to Proceed
By MICHAEL BARBARO
As Donald J. Trump tries to fend off lawsuits from angry home buyers, who claim he misled them about his role in developing luxury towers, his lawyers have repeatedly put forth a simple argument.
Purchasing agreements signed by the buyers, they contend, disclosed Mr. Trump’s role as a mere licensor who was paid for the use of his name — and contradicted marketing materials that suggested he was a developer.
On that basis, his attorneys said, a lawsuit filed against him in Florida should be tossed out.
Not so, a federal judge has ruled.
On Monday, the judge, Adalberto Jordan of the Southern District of Florida, denied a motion from Mr. Trump’s lawyers to dismiss a major claim in a lawsuit filed by buyers of apartments in the Trump International Hotel and Tower Fort Lauderdale.
In his ruling, Judge Jordan said he was not persuaded by the arguments made by lawyers for Mr. Trump that “the purchase agreement contradicts the alleged misrepresentations made by Mr. Trump” and their argument that buyers had failed to show that such misrepresentations had been made.
“I find neither argument convincing,” he wrote.
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