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Court tosses DC Wine Bar’s suit against Trump:
This was the result I predicted when the suit was filed. The judge must have no believed the Emolument Clause was relevant- as I said.
A federal judge Monday dismissed a civil suit brought against President Trump by the owners of a D.C. wine bar, saying the plaintiffs failed to show that the president had engaged in unfair competition by profiting off his luxury D.C. hotel.
The owners of Cork Wine Bar had argued that Trump was improperly leveraging his presidency to attract customers — who might otherwise patronize their Logan Circle establishment — to his downtown Trump International Hotel, which he still owns but does not run.
District Judge Richard J. Leon disagreed, writing that while the plaintiffs might consider the business advantages Trump enjoys by way of his fame and presidency “unseemly, if not unethical,” those advantages did not constitute a violation of the city’s anti-competition law.
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