Which court cases involving Trump relate to his activities in or around 2012?

1. The Miss USA 2012 fallout: a defamation claim and arbitration settlement

Reporting traces a legal fight that grew out of allegations about the Miss USA 2012 pageant when former Miss Pennsylvania Sheena Monnin claimed the contest results were rigged and was subsequently sued by Trump-affiliated organizers; the appellate record and later summaries note Monnin ultimately settled a large arbitration judgment tied to those claims in 2014, a dispute explicitly connected to the 2012 pageant ^[1].

2. Trump Taj Mahal and the FinCEN penalty tied to 2010–2012 banking lapses

Regulatory and retrospective accounts identify a 2015 civil penalty from the Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network against the Trump Taj Mahal for Bank Secrecy Act violations that covered conduct through 2012, meaning enforcement actions bore directly on business activity that occurred in or around that year ^[2].

3. Trackers and databases show 2012 as part of a much larger litigation footprint

Aggregated projects and deep dives into Trump’s litigation history make clear that hundreds or thousands of legal matters span multiple years; USA TODAY’s interactive reporting and litigation trackers from Lawfare and Just Security document how many cases touch many years — implying that 2012 appears across litigation timelines even when few high-profile standalone cases are singled out in mainstream summaries ^{[3] [4] [5]}.

4. Supreme Court and appellate opinions cite 2012 precedent but not specific Trump actions that year

Major Supreme Court rulings and opinions about presidential immunity and the boundary between official and unofficial acts invoke 2012 cases as legal precedent (for example, Zivotofsky v. Clinton) and discuss how to treat conduct across time, but these are doctrinal references rather than litigation alleging new 2012 misconduct by Trump; reporting on Trump v. United States highlights the court’s focus on official-versus-unofficial acts rather than cataloging 2012 activities ^[6].

5. What mainstream trackers and news coverage do not supply: a comprehensive 2012 ledger

While outlets such as AP, BBC, TIME and legal trackers provide exhaustive maps of Trump’s legal exposure over decades, the sources supplied do not produce a single consolidated list of every case whose facts occurred specifically in 2012; instead, they surface individual matters (Miss USA arbitration, Taj Mahal penalty) and broader datasets that include 2012 among many years without isolating every instance for that calendar year ^{[7] [8] [2] [3]}.

6. Competing narratives, incentives, and where to look next

Legal advocacy groups, newsrooms and partisan outlets each emphasize different slices of Trump’s litigation history — advocacy sites catalogue government wins against the administration to show policy defeats, while partisan outlets frame court fights as checks on executive power — creating incentives to either aggregate every case or to highlight politically salient ones; the sources here illustrate that tension and suggest researchers should consult primary dockets and the detailed trackers (Lawfare, Just Security, Supreme Court docket search) to compile a more granular list of 2012-centric filings if needed ^{[4] [5] [9]}.

Exact sourcing limits: the supplied material confirms the Miss USA 2012 arbitration link and the FinCEN penalty covering through 2012 and shows that multiple trackers include 2012 in broader timetables, but the sources do not attempt a comprehensive identification of every case whose operative facts occurred in 2012, so any exhaustive roster would require direct docket searches or targeted archival research ^{[1] [2] [3]}.