Fact check: Have any amended complaints, dismissals, or appeals been filed in Katie Johnson v. Donald J. Trump, and on what dates?

1. What the contemporaneous 2016 litigation record shows and the key dates that matter

The contemporaneous public reporting and case summaries indicate an initial Katie Johnson suit was dismissed in May 2016, and two subsequent attempts to pursue similar claims were filed and later discontinued that year. Specifically, reporting documents that the first 2016 lawsuit claiming coercion and abuse was dismissed in May 2016; a second complaint was filed in June 2016 and withdrawn several months thereafter, and a third version was filed in September 2016 and dropped after several months ^[1]. These events constitute the core timeline available in the reviewed materials for the "Katie Johnson" matter. The reporting frames these as successive filings by the same named plaintiff with the same substantive allegations, each terminated before culminating in a final appellate adjudication or surviving to an amended-complaint stage that reached appellate briefing.

2. What’s missing from the record and why that matters for amended complaints or appeals

The available materials do not show any amended complaints filed after those 2016 terminations, nor any appeals taken from final judgments in a Katie Johnson case against Donald J. Trump. The sources provided include multiple Johnson-labeled dockets that are unrelated — one is Alva Johnson v. Donald J. Trump and others are distinct Johnson suits in different courts — indicating that some search returns conflate similarly named plaintiffs or different jurisdictions ^{[2] [3] [4] [5]}. The absence of docket entries or appellate filings tied to Katie Johnson in the materials means there is no documented post-2016 amended pleading or appellate proceeding in these sources, and therefore no verifiable dates for any such later actions.

3. Confounding search results: identical names, different lawsuits, and voluntary dismissals elsewhere

Searches for “Johnson v. Trump” produce several unrelated matters. One docket in the provided set concerns Alva Johnson alleging common-law battery, a distinct matter from the Katie Johnson reporting ^[2]. Another docket labeled Johnson v. Brown or Johnson v. Sgt. Brown are separate cases that do not concern Donald Trump ^{[3] [5]}. A separate case, Voorhees v. Trump, does show a voluntary dismissal by plaintiffs on October 28, 2025, but that is an entirely different plaintiff group and complaint ^[6]. These results underscore that name collisions and incomplete indexing can create the appearance of activity in “Katie Johnson v. Donald J. Trump” when the underlying dockets concern other plaintiffs or entirely different legal claims.

4. How reputable reporting summarized the 2016 Katie Johnson filings and their dispositions

Contemporary reporting compiled by legal and news outlets chronicled the pattern of filings by Katie Johnson in 2016: an initial claim alleging abuse was dismissed in May 2016, followed by refiled complaints that were later withdrawn or dropped in mid- and late-2016 ^[1]. These reports present the litigation as episodic and short-lived rather than proceeding to protracted pleadings practice, amendments surviving dismissal, or appellate review. The reporting therefore supports the factual conclusion that the litigation did not produce later amended complaints that advanced to appellate adjudication and that the public record, as assembled in these summaries, identifies only the 2016 filing-and-withdrawal cycle.

5. Bottom line for your question — dates you can rely on and the limits of the evidence

Based on the provided sources, the reliable dates are the May 2016 dismissal of the initial Katie Johnson complaint and the subsequent June 2016 refile and September 2016 refile, each withdrawn or dropped in the months following their filing ^[1]. No documented amended complaints, later dismissals tied to a surviving, amended pleading, or appeals in a Katie Johnson v. Donald J. Trump case appear in the reviewed materials. Searches returned several similarly named but legally distinct dockets — Alva Johnson and others — and a separate voluntary dismissal in Voorhees on October 28, 2025 that is unrelated to Katie Johnson ^{[2] [3] [6]}. If you want a definitive, court-certified docket history beyond these sources, consult the specific court dockets where the 2016 filings were made or PACER for the relevant district records.