Category:Frivolous Lawsuits

The following category of lawsuits do not directly bear on Donald Trump

• David Rothrock is a serial litigant who has filed lawsuits involving Donald Trump that misappropriated the name of other famous people as plaintiffs. “Cliven Bundy is quite a character. The family of the Nevada cattle rancher-vigilante is currently at the center of an armed occupation of a federal wildlife refuge in Oregon, which is merely the latest episode in a long history of clashes with the federal government. But that doesn't mean every crazy thing Bundy supposedly said or did actually happened - such as, say, suing President Obama in 2014 for allegedly threatening Donald Trump. BuzzFeed reported Monday morning that Bundy filed a ‘bizarre, hand-written lawsuit’ against the president. The suit alleged that Obama ‘covertly threatened Donald Trump with building code violations, property tax fraud, illegally operating offshore tax havens for betting with federal indictments unless he shuts up and stops the Birther movement.’ That would, indeed, be bizarre - so bizarre, in fact, that it probably should have been treated with juuust a bit more skepticism. The lawsuit does exist, but the person listed as Bundy's co-plaintiff is a guy named David Rothrock, a convicted rapist who is in prison in Pennsylvania. Rothrock has a history of filing wacked-out legal actions and affixing the names of famous people to them. In 2014, he put Minnesota Vikings quarterback Teddy Bridgewater's name on a motion seeking an injunction that would have prevented Jacksonville Jaguars quarterback Blake Bortles from playing. Rothrock claimed to be a performance-enhancing drug dealer who supplied Bortles with steroids and human growth hormone. He accused Bortles of threatening to frame him for rape and said the former University of Central Florida standout is HIV-positive.” (Washington Post, January 4, 2016)