Trump is wrestling with 7 big legal cases. Here's how they may collide with the campaign calendar.

Ahead of Donald Trump's NYC trial next week, he's already been ruled by a judge as having committed fraud.

The case is the lawsuit brought against the former president and current GOP presidential candidate frontrunner by New York’s attorney general Letitia James, who accused Trump and his company of routinely inflating the value of assets like skyscrapers, golf courses and his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida by millions and hundreds of millions. That non-jury trial begins Monday, Oct. 2.

During summary judgment of the case, New York Supreme Court Judge Arthur F. Engoron ruled Tuesday on the key claim in James' lawsuit, saying that the actions of Trump and his company crossed a line and violated the law. In the trail beginning next week, Engoron will decide on the other six claims from the lawsuit and decide on any punishments. For now, the judge ordered that some of Trump's business licenses be rescinded and said he would continue to have an independent monitor oversee the Trump Organization’s operations.

Trump may end up spending a significant part of his presidential campaign in court, possibly with overlapping trials. The GOP frontrunner for the 2024 presidential race is currently facing seven major court cases over the next year, which he'll have to fit in around his campaign. His legal team has been attempting to dismiss, countersue, or delay all of these court trials indefinitely or at least until after the election.

Despite his legal woes — and, some experts have said, possibly in part because of them — Trump remains the GOP presidential front-runner with 59% support from GOP voters in a recent NBC News poll, easily besting the next in line, Gov. Ron DeSantis, with 16%.

Here's how Trump's schedule looks at the moment.

Oct. 2, 2023, New York City: New York Attorney General Letitia James' fraud lawsuit

Date: Oct. 2, 2023

Charges: In September 2022, New York Attorney General Letitia James accused Trump — and his children Donald Trump Jr., Ivanka Trump and Eric Trump, and senior members of the Trump Organization — of massive fraud in a civil lawsuit after a three-year inquiry into his family business.

James said Trump "falsely inflated his wealth by billions of dollars" to enrich himself and his family and mislead banks, insurers and other financial institutions.

One example given was Trump's estate in Florida, Mar-a-Lago, which was valued as high as $739 million but which the attorney general said was closer to $75 million as the higher figure was "based on the false premise that it was unrestricted property and could be developed and sold for residential use," which was not true.

Trump gave a deposition for the case in April, where he dismissed it as "ridiculous."

During the summary judgment phase, on Sept. 26 New York Judge Arthur F. Engoron ruled on the main claim, saying that the actions of Trump and his company crossed a line.

“In defendants’ world: rent regulated apartments are worth the same as unregulated apartments; restricted land is worth the same as unrestricted land; restrictions can evaporate into thin air; a disclaimer by one party casting responsibility on another party exonerates the other party’s lies,” Engoron wrote in his 35-page ruling. “That is a is a fantasy world, not the real world.”

Engoron ordered that some of Trump’s business licenses be rescinded as punishment, making it difficult or impossible for them to do business in New York, and said he would continue to have an independent monitor oversee the Trump Organization’s operations.

Potential penalties: The lawsuit seeks $250 million in penalties and a permanent ban on the Trumps from running businesses in New York. It also attempts to block Trump and the Trump Organization from purchasing commercial real estate in New York for five years.

The civil case also could lead into a later criminal one. James announced she had referred some of the allegations to the U.S. Attorney's office and the IRS for possible criminal investigation.

New York Judge Arthur F. Engoron is overseeing the case.

Oct. 23, 2023: Georgia conspiracy indictments

Date: Oct. 23, 2023 (tentative). Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis wants to try Trump and his 18 co-conspirators together. That date has been set for two of them, but Trump and others have asked to be separated from them and Trump has asked not to have a speedy trial.

Number of felony counts: 13

Charges: The Georgia grand jury's 98-page indictment accuses Trump and his allies, including former Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani and former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, of a coordinated plan to have state officials after the 2020 election award the state to Trump despite Biden's win, focusing on a behind-the-scenes pressure campaign on state election workers and harassment of a poll worker Trump falsely accused of fraud.

Trump surrendered to Georgia authorities in August and was released on bail.

Potential penalties: The defendants have been charged with criminal conspiracy to commit election fraud under the state's RICO law, a provision that, at the federal level, was created to target organized crime. In Georgia, those crimes carry a minimum five-year prison sentence and up to 20 years.

Jan. 15, 2024, New York City: E. Jean Carroll defamation lawsuit

Date: Jan. 15, 2024

Claim: In May of this year, a federal jury found Trump liable in a civil case for sexual abuse and defamation against writer E. Jean Carroll, who said he sexually assaulted her in a New York City department store in 1996 and disparaged her character when he lied about it afterward. The jury awarded her $5 million in damages. Trump has appealed the verdict.

Trump said during a CNN town hall the very next day that Carroll was a "whack job" who told a "made-up story."

Based on that, U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan permitted Carroll to amend her defamation lawsuit to seek additional damages.

Potential penalties: Carroll is asking the court for at least $10 million more.

Jan. 15, 2024: Iowa GOP presidential caucuses

Also on Jan. 15, Iowa's Republicans will choose their presidential candidate in the first caucus in the U.S. for the 2024 presidential election. In caucuses, delegates are chosen by the political party to the party's national convention where they will approve the nominee. The next GOP caucuses and primaries (which are votes held by state and local governments) will be:

• Jan. 23: New Hampshire primary (not finalized)

• Feb. 8: Nevada caucus

• Feb. 24: South Carolina primary

• Feb. 27: Michigan primary

• Mar. 2: Idaho caucus

Jan. 29, 2024: Pyramid scheme civil case

Date: Jan. 29, 2024

Four anonymous plaintiffs filed a civil class action case against Trump and the Trump Organization accusing them of defrauding working-class Americans and receiving secret payments to promote and endorse a multilevel marketing company called American Communications Network.

While the lawsuit was also originally aimed at Trump's three children, District Judge Lorna Schofield granted their dismissals from the case earlier this year "in order to streamline and focus the issues to be adjudicated at trial."

Mar. 4, 2024, Washington, D.C.: Jan. 6 trial

Date: Mar. 4, 2024 (tentative)

Number of felony counts: 4

Charges: A federal grand jury in Washington indicted Trump on four counts related to the Jan. riot: conspiracy to defraud the United States, conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding, obstruction of and attempt to obstruct an official proceeding, and conspiracy against rights.

Special counsel Jack Smith wanted Jan. 2, Trump's lawyers wanted a date in 2026. U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan chose March 4, 2024.

Trump called the decision election interference and vowed to appeal, in a post on Truth Social. He criticized the trial date as “smack in the middle” of his campaign against President Joe Biden. “Election interference!” he wrote on Truth Social. "I will APPEAL!”

The date is one day before the Super Tuesday presidential primaries and caucuses in 15 states as Trump campaigns for the Republican nomination.

Potential penalties:

• Conspiracy to defraud the government: Up to five years in prison.

• Conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding: Up to 20 years in prison.

• Obstructing an official proceeding: Up to 20 years in prison.

• Conspiracy against rights: Up to 10 years in prison, unless the crime involves murder, rape or kidnapping (successful or attempted), in which case the maximum punishment is the death penalty.

Each conviction could be sentenced with consecutive terms but generally federal sentences are lower than the maximum penalty. There are no mandatory minimum sentences for any of the charges.

District Judge Tanya Chutkan is overseeing the case.

March 5: Super Tuesday primaries

On Tuesday, March 5, about a third of all the delegates to the presidential nominating conventions will be named, a strong indicator of the eventual nominee for each party. Super Tuesday includes primaries for the GOP and Democrats in 14 states: Alabama, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Maine, Massachusetts, Minnesota, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont and Virginia.

The rest of the states' primaries and caucuses will run through June 4. Florida's primary for both parties is on Mar. 19.

March 25, 2024, New York City: Hush-money payments case

Date: March 25, 2024.

Number of felony counts: 34

Charges: Trump has been charged with 34 counts of allegedly falsifying business records at his eponymous company to hide hush money payments his former lawyer and fixer, Michael Cohen, arranged to silence porn actor Stormy Daniels and Playboy model Karen McDougal before the 2016 election.

The Trump Organization paid Cohen in the form of legal fees, the indictment said, and Cohen has testified that 11 reimbursements went to him to silence Daniels for $130,000 and McDougal for $150,000 over their claims of having had sex with Trump. Trump pleaded not guilty.

Potential penalties: If convicted, the maximum sentence for the felony would be four years in prison, but first-time offenders typically get shorter sentences or probation.

Acting New York Supreme Court Judge Juan Merchan is overseeing the case.

May 20, 2024, Fort Pierce, Florida: Mar-a-Lago Classified documents case

Date: May 20, 2024

Number of felony counts: 40

Charges: After FBI agents seized hundreds of classified documents at Mar-a-Lago in August last year, Trump was indicted on 37 counts, including willful retention of national defense information under the Espionage Act, conspiracy to obstruct justice and concealing documents. This came more than a year and a half after Trump left the White House.

Potential penalties: According to Vox, Trump may be facing:

• Willful retention of defense information: Up to 10 years

• Conspiracy to obstruct justice: Up to 20 years

• Withholding documents from an official proceeding: Up to 20 years

• Concealing documents from an official proceeding: Up to 20 years

• Concealing documents from federal investigators: Up to 20 years

• Scheme to conceal: Up to 5 years

• Making false statements to the US government: Up to 5 years

• Altering, destroying, or hiding something the government is seeking: Up to 20 years

The maximum sentences are unlikely.

District Judge Aileen Cannon is overseeing the case.

July 15-18, 2024, Milwaukee: Republican National Convention

The 2024 Republican National Convention, where delegates will select the party's nominees for president and vice president, is scheduled to be held July 15-18 at the Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee.

Contributors: John Fritze, Sudiksha Kochi, USA TODAY, the Associated Press

This article originally appeared on The Daytona Beach News-Journal: Trump's indictments, lawsuits: GOP front-runner has multiple court dates