Caesar’s forum-shopping dept.: Donald Trump has filed his $5 billion defamation suit against author and New York Times reporter Timothy O’Brien (see Jan. 25, Feb. 12) not in the courts of some boringly obvious place like, say, Manhattan, but in Camden, New Jersey, which happens to be “where his golf buddy, George Norcross II, the state’s behind-the-scenes political kingmaker, holds court. In 2001, Norcross, an exec at Commerce Bank, was caught on tape boasting of having engineered a judgeship for a political foe ‘just to get rid of him.’ Norcross’s claim to control the New Jersey courts was only bluster, his longtime lawyer, William Tambussi, said at the time. Tambussi has also been retained by Trump in his suit.” (Geoffrey Gray, “Intelligencer: Trump’s Jersey Trump Card”, New York, Mar. 13).
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