(CNN) — A federal judge on Friday dismissed pro-Trump channel Newsmax’s lawsuit against Fox News just two days after it was filed, calling it a “shotgun” complaint.

Newsmax’s lawsuit is a “shotgun pleading,” US District Judge Aileen Cannon ruled, using a term for disorganized complaints that fail to meet certain pleading standards. The lawsuit repeats its allegations in each legal claim, thus rendering it “impermissible” in court, the judge said.

“The Court has an independent obligation to dismiss such pleadings and require repleader,” wrote Cannon, a Donald Trump-appointed district judge in Florida who, in 2024, dismissed the classified documents case against him.

Newsmax has six days to file a cleaned-up complaint. In a text to CNN, Newsmax CEO Christopher Ruddy called the judge’

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