LJC In The News
US Food Importer Sues Trump Administration Over 50% Tariffs on Canadian Goods
By Michael Sinkewicz | Oct. 21, 2026 (Fox Business) A family-run American food importer sued the Trump administration on Tuesday over its 50% tariffs on certain Canadian goods, arguing that the duties are unlawful and which the company estimates could cost it roughly $40 million annually on Canadian cheese imports...
Parents Threaten School District for Forcing Girls to Bunk With Boys on Trips, Keeping it Secret
By Greg Piper | October 20, 2026 (Just The News) Another school district settles litigation with Moms for Liberty over gender secrecy policies, alleging board members received death threats for policies it was already in the process of changing. The Supreme Court put school districts on notice this spring that...
Trump Sued Over 50% Tariffs on Canada in Latest Trade Challenge
By Kevin Breuninger | Oct 20, 2026 (CNBC) A new lawsuit filed Tuesday challenges President Donald Trump’s invocation of a Depression-era law to impose 50% tariffs on a range of Canadian goods. Trump in July used Section 338 of the Tariff Act of 1930 to slap those steep tariffs on...
Trump Administration Sued Over 50% Tariffs on Canadian Products
By Lisa Fickenscher | Oct. 20, 2026 (New York Post) The Trump administration was sued over its Canadian tariffs Tuesday by the same group that successfully got the Supreme Court to overturn a large swath of the president’s levies last year. The Liberty Justice Center filed the suit in the...
A New Jersey Food Importer Files a Lawsuit Challenging Trump’s 50% Tariffs on Canadian Goods
By PAUL WISEMAN | October 20, 2026 (AP News) WASHINGTON (AP) — A New Jersey food importer filed a lawsuit Tuesday challenging President Donald Trump’s power to invoke a Depression-era law to levy a 50% tariff on $20 billion worth of Canadian goods. The Gellert Global Group, a third-generation family...
Trump Tariffs on Canada Spark Latest Lawsuit Over Trade Powers
By Tony Romm | Oct. 20, 2026 (New York Times) Once again, the president’s ability to wage a trade war without Congress will come before a court that has repeatedly ruled against him. A legal group that has successfully sued to scuttle President Trump’s past tariffs filed another court challenge...
Food Importer Files New Lawsuit to Block Trump’s Canada Tariffs
By Dietrich Knauth | October 20, 2026 (Reuters) US food importer Gellert Global Group on Tuesday sued to stop the Trump administration’s latest tariffs on imports from Canada, saying the duties represent another attempt to claim presidential tariff power that has been rejected in court. Republican President Donald Trump imposed...
Illinois School District Placed Male Roommate Overnight With Teen Girls, Legal Group Claims
By Tyler O’Neil | October 19, 2026 (Daily Signal) An Illinois school district allowed at least one male to share overnight accommodations with female high school students while withholding that information from parents, according to a legal group representing concerned parents. Community High School District 128 in northern Illinois directs...
National Press Foundation: Where the Business Community Stands in Court: An LJC Briefing
By National Press Foundation | October 9, 2026 (National Press Foundation) In this interview Liberty Justice Center Senior Counsel Jeffrey Schwab briefed the National Press Foundation on the legal battles reshaping American trade and business — from landmark Supreme Court victories to ongoing challenges in federal courts. Schwab walks through...
A Missouri School District Censored a Parent’s Negative Facebook Emoji Because It Was ‘Upsetting’
Jacob Sullum | 10.8.2026 (Reason Magazine) Annie Palmer was banned from the district’s Facebook page for expressing her displeasure at the hiring of a new elementary school principal. Last April, Missouri’s Kearney School District (KSD) announced that it had hired a new principal to run Southview Elementary School: Ali Stewart,...
Trump’s New Tariffs Face a Familiar Court Challenge
By Tony Romm | Sept. 30, 2026 (New York Times) For the third time in less than two years, the Trump administration is set to return to court on Wednesday to defend its power to wage a punishing global trade war. Just hours after the Supreme Court struck down President...
Trump Used Impossible Foreign Labor Standards as Tariff Workaround, Small Businesses Say
By Ashley Murray | Sep 28, 2026 (News From the States) WASHINGTON — Small businesses will once again challenge President Donald Trump’s tariffs in federal court this week as they continue to feel the squeeze of the administration’s roller coaster policy on import taxes. Spice importer Burlap & Barrel and...
Author of America’s Tariff Statute: Trump’s Tariffs are Illegal
By David Goldman | Sept. 24, 2026 (CNN) Ambassador Alan Wolff says President Donald Trump’s novel implementation of America’s tariff law is illegal and runs counter to how Congress intended the presidential power to be used. Wolff would know. He wrote the law. “I have a sense of ownership of...
Senators Seek Consumer Refund Plan as $122B Cleared for Importers
By Brett Rowland | Sep 23, 2026 (The Center Square) Six senators want to know if the Trump administration has any plan to get tariff refunds to consumers with the government having cleared about $122 billion in refunds of struck-down duties for importers. In a letter dated Monday, Sen. Elizabeth...
Justice Dept. Lawsuit Over Parent Rights and Gender Identity Could Be Test Case
By Linda Jacobson and The 74 | September 19, 2026 (The Good Men Project) The government’s argument could hinge on whether the Kansas City, Kansas, district ever withheld records from parents. The Trump administration took an unprecedented move last week when it sued the Kansas City, Kansas, school district over...