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Richard Penner @[email protected] · 2026-07-29 · 00:56 UTC

The July 31 deadline for reporting on #KennedyCenter plans in #Beatty v. #Trump (25-cv-04480, District Court, D.C.) has been moved to not after 2026/08/20 or 5 days they actual do the work of having a proper meeting.

#trump #beatty #kennedycenter

Richard Penner @[email protected] · 2026-07-17 · 22:18 UTC

(small) Update in #Beatty v. #Trump (25-cv-04480, District Court, D.C.) #Lawsuit over the #KennedyCenter capture, renaming, and closure. (A separate appeal of the order to take Trump's name off the Kennedy Center is still in early days.)

They are still miles apart on a discovery plan. The initial scheduling conference is scheduled for Tuesday, 2026/07/28 so my headache is about to become Judge Cooper's headache.

#kennedycenter #lawsuit #trump #beatty

Richard Penner @[email protected] · 2026-07-14 · 23:59 UTC

Update in #Beatty v. #Trump, et al., (26-5224) Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit — the appeal of the order for Trump to take his filthy name off the Kennedy Center and also don't disrespect the ex-officio trustee who is the only one living up to the fiduciary duty, Joyce Beatty.

2026/07/13 We have more definition on what the appeal is about:

> (1) Whether the district court erred in concluding that Appellee has Article III standing to challenge the Board of Trustees’ December 18, 2025 vote to add Donald J. Trump’s name to the Center.
> (2) Whether the district court erred in concluding that the Board of Trustees’ vote to add Donald J. Trump’s name to the Center violated the terms of the Center’s organic statute and erred in entering permanent relief
accordingly
> (3) Whether the district court erred in concluding that the Board of Trustees’ May 2025 bylaw amendments — which rendered ex officio trustees non-voting members — violated the terms of the Center’s organic statute and erred in entering permanent relief accordingly.

— Doc #2183081

So, yeah, another middle finger up to a District Judge and Congress and JFK screaming "You are not the boss of me." as Trump thinks the Supreme Court is going to bail him out and his lawyers (in this case employed by the DOJ and vetted for personal loyalty) just turn the crank of doomed arguments because duty to the client's whim seemingly trumps duty to ethics, justice, and the law — making justice more expensive for the rest of us.

#trump #beatty

Richard Penner @[email protected] · 2026-06-30 · 12:48 UTC

#Beatty v. #Trump (25-cv-04480, District Court, D.C.) #Lawsuit over the #KennedyCenter capture, renaming, and closure.

As per court order, yesterday the Trump board had to "answer or otherwise respond" to Beatty's lawsuit. They gave up on additional motions to dismiss and answered. So the biggest possible takeaway is that this is likely to last a while and soon discovery can begin.

You have to read the answer (Doc 61) side-by-side with the Amended Complaint (Doc 12) to understand the gap between the parties that the lawsuit needs to close. Paragraph numbers are used for citations, rather than pages, because because every word counts.

1 has the boilerplate "no response is required. To the extent a response is required, the remaining allegations are denied." which seems to say they are willing to die on the hill that Trump hadn't "announced plans to demolish the building" this summer. Bold choice!

2 similarly ignores the illegal vote.

3 admits and act violating the organic statute that created the Kennedy Center. Maybe this lawsuit could have been an email?

4 admits the Trump stooges are so bad at being fiduciaries that they don't know when or why the patrons fled.

5 puts Trump's own words on trial.

6 leans hard into "you can't tell us what the law means" but ignores that Congress and permit offices are actual real things with timelines and documents.

...

26: Admitted: President Trump also appointed himself as a general trustee and had the Board elect
him as the new chair. This is unprecedented. No American president has ever appointed himself
as a trustee of the Kennedy Center, let alone sought to serve as chair.

...

and so on...

#kennedycenter #lawsuit #trump #beatty

Richard Penner @[email protected] · 2026-06-25 · 01:27 UTC

@da_667
Update in #Beatty v. #Trump (25-cv-04480, District Court, D.C.) the #Lawsuit over the #KennedyCenter capture, renaming, and closure. https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/72069932/beatty-v-trump/

New Court Order 2026/06/24:

> the parties are hereby ordered to file a joint status report within seven days of the mid-July Kennedy Center Board of Trustees meeting alluded to in 60, or by [2026/07/31], whichever is earlier. The joint status report shall apprise the Court of any pertinent factual developments as to plans for future construction and operations at the Kennedy Center. *The report shall also indicate the purpose for and status of the tarp and scaffolding that Defendants have erected on the front portico of the Center, to the extent they remain at that time.*

#kennedycenter #lawsuit #trump #beatty

Richard Penner @[email protected] · 2026-06-25 · 01:14 UTC

#Beatty v. #Trump (25-cv-04480, District Court, D.C.) #Lawsuit over the #KennedyCenter capture, renaming, and closure. https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/72069932/beatty-v-trump/

51 Plaintiff's Motion for Miscellaneous Relief 2026/06/05

60 Joint Status Report 2026/06/19

New Court Order 2026/06/24:

> ① [Trump]'s request to stay or extend the deadline to answer Plaintiff's complaint (60, p.4) pending proceedings [in appellate court] is hereby denied. [Trump] shall answer or otherwise respond to [Beatty]'s complaint by 2026/06/29. The Court will promptly set an initial scheduling conference upon receipt of an answer, to be held following the parties' submission of a joint case management report

> ② [Beatty]'s 51 is hereby denied without prejudice. [Trump & co.] have represented, by sworn declaration, that they have "halted all steps to effectuate the March 16 decision to wind down programming and fully close the facility by July 5, 2026" and have committed to "maintain[ing] an operational model past July 5." If these representations do not bear out, [Beatty] may renew her motion for an order requiring proof of compliance, but the Court declines to order further sworn declarations at this time.

> ③ the parties are hereby ordered to file a joint status report within seven days of the mid-July Kennedy Center Board of Trustees meeting alluded to in 60, or by 2026/07/31, whichever is earlier. The joint status report shall apprise the Court of any pertinent factual developments as to plans for future construction and operations at the Kennedy Center. The report shall also indicate the purpose for and status of the tarp and scaffolding that Defendants have erected on the front portico of the Center, to the extent they remain at that time.

#kennedycenter #lawsuit #trump #beatty

Richard Penner @[email protected] · 2026-06-12 · 18:59 UTC

@Nonya_Bidniss
The name-related #KennedyCenter #lawsuit is #Beatty v. #Trump (25-cv-04480) District Court, D.C.

Today:

> MINUTE ORDER: Defendants' Motion for a Stay of Permanent Injunction Pending Appeal is hereby DENIED. "A stay pending appeal is an extraordinary remedy" and may only be granted if the traditional stay factors are satisfied. …. Defendants have not carried their burden to establish that a stay of the Court's May 29, 2026 permanent injunction concerning the Kennedy Center's renaming is warranted pending an appeal of the underlying ruling to the D.C. Circuit. Most notably, for the detailed reasons laid out in the Court's ruling, Defendants have not "made a strong showing that [they] are likely to succeed on the merits" of any appeal. …. Nor have Defendants demonstrated that they "will be irreparably injured absent a stay," …, given both the de minimis resources that would be required to restore the Center's current name in the event of a successful appeal and the lack of record evidence linking increased donations to the current name. Further, Defendants have apparently taken substantial steps toward complying with the Court's May 29 permanent injunction order on renaming. …. These efforts undermine the notion that Defendants face irreparable harm in complying with the order in full. The failure to demonstrate irreparable harm is "fatal" to a movant's stay request, …, as is the failure to show a likelihood of success on the merits. What's more, issuance of a stay pending appeal would not be in the public interest, which is rarely served by the "perpetuation" of "unlawful" governmental action.

Docket copy: https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/72069932/beatty-v-trump/

#trump #beatty #lawsuit #kennedycenter

Richard Rathe @[email protected] · 2026-06-11 · 23:19 UTC

The road began to climb at #Beatty, just over the border from #DeathValley. The name sounded familiar and once I drove north out of town I discovered why—the only two legal #brothels n the US. Both looked very unappealing and dilapidated. I did not stop. 😉 #RoadTrip

[photo source:pinterest]

#beatty #deathvalley #brothels #roadtrip

Richard Penner @[email protected] · 2026-05-29 · 21:44 UTC

RE: https://fosstodon.org/@AkaSci/116659758510554452

#Beatty v. #Trump (25-cv-04480, District Court, D.C.) #Lawsuit over the #KennedyCenter capture, renaming, and closure.

2026/03/14

> The Court will therefore order that Beatty receive certain information and documents in advance of the meeting, to the extent they exist. It further orders that Beatty be afforded a meaningful opportunity to lodge her dissent at the meeting and not be categorically barred from speaking.

2026/05/29

> Congress gave the Kennedy Center its name, and only Congress can change it.

> stripping ex officio trustees of their voting rights runs afoul of common-law trust principles incorporated into the statute

> Beatty is likely to succeed on her claim that the Board violated its fiduciary duty in voting to close the Kennedy Center, “one of the more consequential decisions in the institution’s lifespan.”

> The preliminary factual record before the Court reveals that, in ratifying President Trump’s closure announcement, the Board was derelict in discharging the full range of its responsibilities to the Center.

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/72069932/beatty-v-trump/

#kennedycenter #lawsuit #trump #beatty