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Small Businesses Mount Legal Challenge to Trump Latest Global Tariffs
Dietrich Knauth | March 09, 2026 Reuters NEW YORK, March 9 (Reuters) – Two small businesses on Monday sued the Trump administration over its latest round of tariffs, saying that the president cannot simply use a different law to reimpose a global 10-percent tax on imported goods after the U.S....
New lawsuit challenges restrictions on school choice in Vermont’s education reform law
Corey McDonald | March 3, 2026 Two parents from Georgia, Vermont, have filed a lawsuit challenging the state’s education reform law, claiming it arbitrarily violates their children’s access to private school and limits their educational opportunity. The lawsuit, filed on Friday in Washington County Superior Court, centers on Vermont’s publicly...
SCOTUS answers emergency request to protect parental rights, forbid schools’ secret gender transitions in California case
Michaela Estruth | March 3, 2026 (The Lion) The U.S. Supreme Court protected parental rights in a “landmark” preliminary ruling Monday – prohibiting schools from socially transitioning children in secret. The ruling answered an emergency application from the Thomas More Society asking the court to intervene in Mirabelli v. Bonta,...
U.S. Supreme Court Delivers Historic, Groundbreaking Victory for Parental Rights, Dismantles California’s Secret Gender Transition Regime
Supreme Court rules that California cannot hide children’s gender transitions from parents; landmark decision protects parental rights nationwide Katie Clancy | March 2, 2026 (Thomas More Society) Washington, D.C. – In a historic and groundbreaking ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court today granted the Thomas More Society’s emergency application in Mirabelli...
High Court defends parents, kids in blocking Newsom transgender law
Sonja Shaw | March 2, 2026 (New York Post) The Supreme Court made the right decision Monday to block Gavin Newsom’s insane law barring schools from informing parents whose children say they want to change genders. The court’s decision is only a preliminary one, but the final outcome is now...
Vermont’s Two-Century-Old School Choice Tradition Hits A Legal Wall As Families Sue Over Act 73
Mike Jenkins | March 2, 2026 A new legal battle is brewing over the future of education in Vermont as the Liberty Justice Center filed a lawsuit challenging Act 73, a 2025 law that significantly narrows the state’s long-standing town tuitioning system. For over 200 years, this program has allowed...
‘We were right’: He took Trump’s tariffs to the Supreme Court and won
Schwartz said he is focused on moving forward and receiving the “government’s refund of these improperly collected taxes” Amanda Macias | February 22, 2026 (Fox Business) Victor Owen Schwartz never imagined he would one day find himself challenging a president in the highest court in the land. But after President...
Who is Victor Schwartz? Wine Importer Who Beat Trump at the Supreme Court
Gabe Whisnant | February 20, 2026 (Newsweek) Victor Schwartz, a New York wine importer, was a lead plaintiff in the Supreme Court case that struck down President Donald Trump’s sweeping global tariffs, delivering a major legal setback to one of the president’s signature economic policies. The 6‑3 ruling found that...
A U.S.-based wine importer reacts to his Supreme Court victory against Trump’s tariffs
Tyler Bartlam, Christopher Intagliata, and Scott Detrow, featuring Victor Owen Schwartz | February 20, 2026 (NPR) NPR’s Scott Detrow talks with Victor Schwartz, founder of New-York-based wine importer VOS Selections, about prevailing at the Supreme Court in his case against some of President Trump’s tariffs. SCOTT DETROW, HOST: In...
Interview: Neal Katyal & Sara Albrecht on 6-3 SCOTUS strike down of IEEPA Tariffs.
(MS Now) In this interview, MS Now hears the reactions of Former U.S. Acting Solicitor General Neal Katyal, who argued against the tariffs in this case before the Supreme Court, and Liberty Justice Center Chairman Sara Albrecht on the 6-3 SCOTUS Tariffs decision, which upheld the rule of law and...
Wine Importer Who Sued Over Tariffs Says Ruling Is Like Winning a ‘Gold Medal’
Ruth Simon | February 20, 2026 (Wall Street Journal) Victor Owen Schwartz, a small wine importer and distributor, is the lead plaintiff in one of the tariff lawsuits. He was sitting at his dining room table with his wife when the Supreme Court ruling came in. To continue reading this...
Burlington Company Helps Topple Trump’s Tariffs
Colin Flanders | February 20, 2026 (Seven Days) The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday struck down President Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs, a final ruling in a case that originated with a lawsuit brought by a Burlington-based women’s cycling gear company. Terry Precision Cycling was one of five American businesses waging...
While corporate America stayed silent, a small wine importer risked his business to challenge Trump’s tariffs
Elisabeth Buchwald | February 21, 2026 (CNN Business) When President Donald Trump announced plans to raise the nation’s effective tariff rate to levels not seen since 1930 last year, most CEOs were silent. They’d seen how opposing the president’s ambitions – let alone his signature economic policy – could prove...
Supreme Court strikes down Trump’s tariffs
Doug Palmer, Josh Gerstein, and Daniel Desrochers | February 20, 2026 (Politico) The Supreme Court on Friday struck down President Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs — a major repudiation of a core piece of Trump’s economic program. The 6-3 decision is a rare instance of the conservative-led court reining in Trump’s...
Opinion: Transparency isn’t a political attack — it’s a public obligation
Sara Albrecht | February 20, 2026 (Crain’s Chicago Business) Chicago Teachers Union leaders would like the public to believe that recent federal scrutiny of their finances is part of a right-wing conspiracy — an attack on educators, students, and social justice itself. That framing may be effective rally rhetoric. It...