LJC In The News
Trump’s 145% Tariffs Could KO Tabletop Game Makers, Other Small Biz, Lawsuit Claims
(The Register)—The Trump administration’s tariffs are famously raising the prices of high-ticket products with lots of chips, like iPhones and cars, but they’re also hurting small businesses like game makers. In this case, we’re not talking video games, but the old-fashioned kind you play at your kitchen table. On Thursday...
Another Ohio School Employee Sues to Stop Union Payments
(The Center Square)—Another public school employee filed suit against a union to stop dues from being taken from her paycheck. This time it comes a year after leaving the union, six months after asking again and following numerous calls and letters asking for dues to end, according to the lawsuit....
Game Maker Challenges Trump’s Tariffs as Lawsuits Pile Up
(The Center Square)—A public-interest law firm filed a lawsuit challenging the president’s authority to unilaterally impose tariffs, at least the fifth such lawsuit since Donald Trump’s “Liberation Day” tariffs. Stonemaier Games, an American board game company, said in a federal lawsuit that it could soon face a $1.5 million payment...
Federal Trade Court Rules In Favor of Trump Tariffs
(Charlie Kirk)—President Donald Trump and his administration have faced relentless legal challenges driven by Democrats since his inauguration, with ongoing lawsuits continuing to hinder his efforts to fulfill the agenda backed by a majority of voters in the November election. However, the president notched a significant court win this week—one...
Legal Challenges to IEEPA Tariffs Stack Up
(Export Practitioner)—As of April 25, 2025, seven lawsuits have been filed challenging President Trump’s imposition of tariffs under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA), a 1977 statute traditionally used for targeted economic sanctions. Peter Harrell, Non-Resident Fellow at the Carnegie Endowment, attorney, and host of the Security Economics Podcast,...
Strong Support for First Liberty’s Supreme Court Case Involving Mississippi Evangelist
(First Liberty Institute)—First Liberty received a tremendous outpouring of support in our pending U.S. Supreme Court case involving Gabriel Olivier, an evangelist who was banned from sharing his faith in a public park. Gabe went to court to seek relief, but his case was dismissed, which effectively denied him of...
Pacific Legal Foundation Files Case Challenging Trump’s IEEPA Tariffs
(Reason)—The Pacific Legal Foundation (major libertarian public interest law firm) has filed a case challenging Trump’s awful IEEPA tariffs, with the awesome name of Princess Awesome v. CBP. Their case is similar to the one filed earlier by Liberty Justice Center and myself. I welcome PLF to the fight. They...
Board Game Company Files Lawsuit Challenging Constitutionality of Trump Tariffs
(Pacific Legal Foundation)—Today, Stonemaier Games, an American board game company, filed a federal lawsuit challenging the Trump administration’s tariffs, which dramatically increase production costs and could be financially devastating. The business, represented by Pacific Legal Foundation, argues that the president doesn’t have the power to impose these tariffs. Founded by...
Trump Is Using Emergency Law to Impose Tariffs. Is That Legal?
(Bloomberg)—President Donald Trump’s trade tariffs have roiled financial markets, prompted an outcry from world leaders and raised the specter of a US recession. The blowback eventually prompted Trump to pause some of the most punishing tariffs for 90 days. With every move, the US president underscores that he is calling...
An Emboldened Property Rights Movement Takes Aim at Wetlands Protections
(The New York Times)—Driving through the gently sloping terrain of northeast Iowa, there is little to distinguish Jim Conlan’s land, a stretch of light brown dirt sprinkled with tallgrass and maples, from the other fields where soybeans and cornstalks will soon sprout from the ground. But if Mr. Conlan has...
12 States Sue Trump Over Tariffs, Say Emergency Powers Don’t Cover Trade
(Straight Arrow News)—Twelve U.S. states have sued the Trump administration, claiming President Donald Trump violated the Constitution by using emergency powers to impose global tariffs. The lawsuit argued that Trump overstepped his legal authority under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act of 1977 by bypassing Congress to enact trade policy....
Dozen States Sue to Contest Trump Administration’s Tariffs
(World)—Attorneys general from 12 states on Wednesday filed a lawsuit seeking a court order to block President Donald Trump from imposing steep tariffs on foreign goods. The attorneys general say Trump broke the law by levying tariffs on imports. The plaintiffs in the lawsuit are Arizona, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Illinois,...
Judges Block Emergency Order in Lawsuit Over Trump’s Tariffs
(The Center Square)—A group asked permission to file a brief in a lawsuit over President Donald Trump’s tariffs, claiming the president doesn’t have the power to impose import duties after the judges rejected an emergency order to stop tariffs. The group includes former U.S. Senators, a retired U.S. Attorney General,...
Court Denies Restraining Order That Would Have Temporarily Halted Tariffs; New Lawsuit Filed
(ASI Central)—President Donald Trump has scored an early-round victory in legal bouts his administration is engaged in over import tariffs he’s imposed in 2025, but he’s also now facing another lawsuit filed by 12 states. The U.S. Court of International Trade denied a motion from public interest law firm Liberty...
Bipartisan Legal Luminaries Unite To Challenge Trump’s “Liberation Day” Tariffs
(Tampa Free Press)—A coalition of prominent legal figures, including former U.S. Senators, a retired U.S. Attorney General, retired federal judges, and leading constitutional scholars, has filed a significant amici curiae brief in support of the challenge to President Trump’s “Liberation Day” tariffs. The Liberty Justice Center, representing five small businesses...