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* News anchor-turned-GOP candidate Kari Lake infamously refused to concede the 2022 Arizona gubernatorial election to Democratic candidate Katie Hobbs. Concurrently, state senator Mark Finchem didn't concede to Adrian Fontes in the secretary of state election, nor did Abraham Hamadeh yield to Kris Mayes in the state attorney general race. In their repeated filings (which went on ''even after'' Hobbs, Mayes, and Fontes were officially inaugurated), Lake, Hamadeh, and Finchem even baselessly claimed they are the rightful governor, AG, and [=SoS=] for Arizona, respectively. It instead earned them and their attorneys public scorn and sanctions for filing more than thirty junk lawsuits, which ended up bankrupting the Arizona Republican Party under a mountain of legal fees.
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* News anchor-turned-GOP candidate Kari Lake infamously refused to concede the 2022 Arizona gubernatorial election to Democratic candidate Katie Hobbs. Concurrently, state senator Mark Finchem didn't concede to Adrian Fontes in the secretary of state election, nor did Abraham Hamadeh yield to Kris Mayes in the state attorney general race. In their repeated filings (which went on ''even after'' Hobbs, Mayes, and Fontes were officially inaugurated), Lake, Hamadeh, and Finchem the three even baselessly claimed they are the rightful governor, AG, and [=SoS=] for Arizona, respectively. It instead earned them and their attorneys public scorn and sanctions from irate judges for filing more than thirty ''forty'' junk lawsuits, lawsuits all the way to the Supreme Court, which ended up bankrupting the Arizona Republican Party under a mountain of GOP with hefty legal fees.fees for not specifying a tort as many of their lawsuits were riddled with pure gobbledygook about voter fraud.
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* Trademark trolls are people who sue frivolously with spamigation[[note]]suing large groups in bulk without taking care to assure all defendants are actually at fault[[/note]] whenever their supposed "trademarks" are used without "permission". Similar cases exist with copyrights and patents.
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* Trademark Trademark, patent, and copyright trolls are people who sue frivolously with spamigation[[note]]suing large groups in bulk without taking care to assure all defendants are actually at fault[[/note]] whenever their supposed "trademarks" are used without "permission". Similar cases exist with copyrights and patents."permission".
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** Leo Stoller, a self-styled "intellectual property entrepreneur" (read: con-artist), trademarked such words and phrases as Stealth, Sentra, Dark Star, Air Frame, Stradivarius, Havoc, Chestnut, Trillium, White Line Fever, Fire Power, Love Your Body, Terminator, and many, many more. Once he trademarked a word or phrase, he immediately launched million-dollar lawsuits against people and companies who were casually using those words. His lawsuits have consistently been laughed out of court both at the state and federal level. Even the Supreme Court was unimpressed with his repeated filings.
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** Leo Stoller, a self-styled "intellectual property entrepreneur" (read: con-artist), trademarked such commonly words and phrases as Stealth, Sentra, Dark Star, Air Frame, Stradivarius, Havoc, Chestnut, Trillium, White Line Fever, Fire Power, Love Your Body, Terminator, and many, many more. Once he trademarked a word or phrase, he immediately launched million-dollar lawsuits against people and companies who were casually using those words. His lawsuits words, which have consistently been laughed out of court dismissed both at the state and federal level. Even the Supreme Court was unimpressed with his repeated filings.
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** Richard Liebowitz is a former attorney who sued media companies on behalf of photographers who asserted their images were used without permission. However, his tactic is to sue rather than accept a settlement, something which media companies claimed by overloading them with dubious lawsuits. His law license was eventually suspended indefinitely in 2021 for his unethical conduct.
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** Richard Liebowitz is a former attorney who sued media companies on behalf of photographers who asserted their images were used without permission. However, his tactic is to sue rather than accept a settlement, something which media companies claimed by overloading them with dubious lawsuits. His law license He was eventually suspended indefinitely disbarred in 2021 2024 for his unethical conduct.
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*** In fact, whenever someone writes unflattering stuff about him, [[https://www.forbes.com/sites/alisondurkee/2021/09/28/trumps-legal-challenges-against-unflattering-tell-alls-keep-failing-as-arbitrator-sides-with-omarosa/?sh=1fbc83ff5c4b he would sometimes sue them]]. Notably, he couldn't stop his estranged niece Mary from revealing the Trump family dynamics and financial dealings[[note]]which revealed that Trump allegedly inflated the value of his properties via fraud (so he could get favorable loans and tax breaks), was in massive debt, and paid a ''measly'' $750 in income taxes for 2016 and 2017 (it and his COVID-19 diagnosis a few days later became the October surprises for 2020). Trump later sued her and ''The New York Times'' for their "insidious plot" to take him down, but it was dismissed in May 2023 and he was fined $400,000 for his blatant attempt at filing a SLAPP[[/note]]. Nor could he stop his former National Security Advisor John Bolton from publishing a book about his stint in the White House. He also unsuccessfully sued CNN for comparing him to Nazi tyrant Adolf Hitler, architecture critic Paul Gapp for mocking his plan to build a 150-floor tower in downtown Manhattan, a small Wisconsin TV station and a cartoonist for criticizing his poor handling of the COVID-19 pandemic[[note]]the former for airing an ad; the latter for drawing a cartoon about his suggestion that the virus could be cured by drinking bleach, which immediately prompted medical professionals and disinfectant manufacturers to state that bleach ''[[DontTryThisAtHome should not]]'' [[DontTryThisAtHome be ingested in any shape or form]][[/note]], and the ''Washington Post'' for an article about his social media company Truth Social borrowing from a bank with ties to porn sites. He also sued former Democratic adviser turned ''Good Morning America'' host Creator/GeorgeStephanopoulos in March 2024 for an interview the latter did with Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) regarding her endorsement of Trump despite being found civilly liable for sexually assaulting journalist E. Jean Carroll in the 1990s.
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*** In fact, whenever someone writes unflattering stuff about him, [[https://www.forbes.com/sites/alisondurkee/2021/09/28/trumps-legal-challenges-against-unflattering-tell-alls-keep-failing-as-arbitrator-sides-with-omarosa/?sh=1fbc83ff5c4b he would sometimes sue them]]. Notably, he couldn't stop his estranged niece Mary from revealing the Trump family dynamics and financial dealings[[note]]which revealed that Trump allegedly inflated the value of his properties via fraud (so he could get favorable loans and tax breaks), was in massive debt, and paid a ''measly'' $750 in income taxes for 2016 and 2017 (it and his COVID-19 diagnosis a few days later became the October surprises for 2020). Trump later sued her and ''The New York Times'' for their "insidious plot" to take him down, but it was dismissed in May 2023 and he was fined $400,000 for his blatant attempt at filing a SLAPP[[/note]]. Nor could he stop his former National Security Advisor John Bolton from publishing a book about his stint in the White House. He also unsuccessfully sued CNN for comparing him to Nazi tyrant Adolf Hitler, architecture critic Paul Gapp for mocking his plan to build a 150-floor tower in downtown Manhattan, a small Wisconsin TV station and a cartoonist for criticizing his poor handling of the COVID-19 pandemic[[note]]the former for airing an ad; the latter for drawing a cartoon about his suggestion that the virus could be cured by drinking bleach, which immediately prompted medical professionals and disinfectant manufacturers to state that bleach ''[[DontTryThisAtHome should not]]'' [[DontTryThisAtHome be ingested in any shape or form]][[/note]], invoke the DontTryThisAtHome trope ''immediately''[[/note]], and the ''Washington Post'' for an article about his social media company Truth Social borrowing from a bank with ties to porn sites. He also sued former Democratic adviser turned ''Good Morning America'' host Creator/GeorgeStephanopoulos in March 2024 for an interview the latter did with Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) regarding her endorsement of Trump despite being found civilly liable for sexually assaulting journalist E. Jean Carroll in the 1990s.1990s and repeatedly defaming her despite being warned not to do so.
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** In 2018 and again in 2019, he wanted to sue ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' and Creator/JimmyKimmel for their negative parodies of him, but grudgingly backed out when told that satires are free speech. When they found out about this, Kimmel and Creator/StephenColbert mocked Trump for having NoSenseOfHumor when he's the punchline.
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** In 2018 and again in 2019, he wanted to sue ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' and Creator/JimmyKimmel for their negative parodies of him, but grudgingly backed out when told that satires are free speech. When they found out about this, Kimmel and Creator/StephenColbert mocked Trump him for having NoSenseOfHumor when he's the punchline.
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* Even before he was POTUS, UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump has accepted this [[https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/25/politics/trump-legal-strategy-history/index.html as a stall tactic]] that critics say he does it to [[https://www.usnews.com/news/business/articles/2022-03-28/trump-suit-against-clinton-part-of-longtime-legal-strategy show off]], having sued over ''4,500 times'' in his career. While real estate litigation is common to enforce contracts, he has been in court battles more than any of his peers (including Leona Helmsley, whom he infamously feuded with in the 1990s). Here are some notable examples:
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* Even before he was POTUS, UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump has accepted this [[https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/25/politics/trump-legal-strategy-history/index.html as a stall tactic]] that critics say he does it to [[https://www.usnews.com/news/business/articles/2022-03-28/trump-suit-against-clinton-part-of-longtime-legal-strategy show off]], having sued over ''4,500 times'' in his career. One judge even called him a vexatious litigant who files for the sake of harassing his opponents. While real estate litigation is common to enforce contracts, he has been in court battles more than any of his peers (including Leona Helmsley, whom he infamously feuded with in the 1990s). Here are some notable examples:
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*** A related suit against his friend-turned-ArchEnemy UsefulNotes/HillaryClinton and 30 other defendants was dismissed in September 2022 for being a disguised "political manifesto" full of grievances against them. In January 2023, the judge docked Trump with a $1 million fine, warned him not to relitigate it, and even chided him for being a vexatious litigant. Trump again refiled the lawsuit in June 2023, but the same judge rebuked him ''again'' for wasting the court's time.
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*** A related suit against his friend-turned-ArchEnemy UsefulNotes/HillaryClinton and 30 other defendants was dismissed in September 2022 for being a disguised "political manifesto" full of grievances against them. In January 2023, the judge docked Trump with a $1 million fine, fine and warned him not to relitigate it, and even chided him for being a vexatious litigant.it. Trump again refiled the lawsuit in June 2023, but the same judge rebuked him ''again'' for wasting the court's time.
