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Fraud liability survived appeal; the half-billion-dollar remedy did not

Reporting and findings

  1. documented

    The New York Court of Appeals docketed the parties' further appeals as APL-2025-00171.

  2. reversed

    The Appellate Division vacated the $464,576,230.62 disgorgement component of the judgment as an excessive fine under the Eighth Amendment.

  3. found liable

    The Appellate Division affirmed the civil-fraud judgment's liability and injunctive relief, concluding that the record supported findings that Trump and other individual defendants violated Executive Law section 63(12) through underlying New York Penal Law violations.

Summary and current status

New York's Appellate Division affirmed the judgment's liability and injunctive components but vacated the disgorgement awards as an excessive fine. Further appeals were docketed in the Court of Appeals.

Liability and injunctive relief affirmed; disgorgement vacated; further appeal pending

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  1. Disgorgement component vacated on appeal$464,576,230.62
    Calculation details
    Basis
    Observed
    Population
    The trial judgment's disgorgement and prejudgment-interest component vacated by the Appellate Division
    Period
    2025-08-21 to 2025-08-21
    As of
    2025-08-21
    Method
    Transcribe the exact combined amount identified in the appellate opinion and encode it as a legal-disposition observation.
    Uncertainty
    The court vacated this remedy in its entirety. It is neither a current obligation nor evidence that this amount was paid, and it must not be added to the original judgment or any bond value.