Judge strikes down Trump's $15 billion suit against the New York Times

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19. I wouldn't get too excited about this ruling.

While the case eventually should, and hopefully will, be dismissed on the merits, the judge's ruling isn't all that significant.
First, it was dismissed without prejudice on a technical procedural ground.
Second, Trump was given time to re-file a more condensed version of the complaint -- 40 pages instead of 85 -- but attachments to the complaint won't count against the page limit so I expect a lot of the material dropped from the complaint to show up in attachments.
Third, the judge was quite clear and emphatic that the decision did not concern the merits of the complaint.