- Two federal courts, the U.S. Court of International Trade and the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, held that the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (“IEEPA”) does not authorize the President to impose several recent tariffs.
- Both decisions are temporarily stayed ahead of appeals in the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit and Federal Circuit, respectively.
- The two courts came to opposite conclusions regarding subject matter jurisdiction, teeing up a further question to be resolved in the courts of appeals.
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