Former President and reality TV star Donald Trump will have to go to court in California if he wants a chance at suing for his Twitter account back. When Mr. Trump agreed to Twitter’s terms of service back in 2009, he agreed to a forum selection clause that specified all claims would have to be settled in a California court. Much to the chagrin of foreign litigants and civ pro students, it is not uncommon for contracts and terms of service documents to have binding arbitration and choice of venue clauses — despite no one actually reading them. In a legal strategy that could politely be described as creative, Donny Boy’s counsel argued that the clause shouldn’t apply to him because he was fired from Twitter while he was president. Unsurprisingly, District Judge Robert Scola found that “Trump’s former status as the President of the United States does not preclude the application of the forum selection clause[.]”
Who knows what will follow now? Will Trump respect the judge’s decision and play golf in Cali as his counsel fight valiantly for his blue checked account? Will he like, claim this violates the Fourteenth Amendment? I think that both are equally likely. Let’s see how ridiculous this turns out to be.
Federal Judge In Florida Says Trump Twitter Case Must Be Heard In California [The Hill]
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Chris Williams became a social media manager and assistant editor for Above the Law in June 2021. Prior to joining the staff, he moonlighted as a minor Memelord™ in the Facebook group Law School Memes for Edgy T14s. Before that, he wrote columns for an online magazine named The Muse Collaborative under the pen name Knehmo. He endured the great state of Missouri long enough to graduate from Washington University in St. Louis School of Law. He is a former boatbuilder who cannot swim, a published author on critical race theory, philosophy, and humor, and has a love for cycling that occasionally annoys his peers. You can reach him by email at [email protected] and by tweet at @WritesForRent.