How Our Tariff Case Came About

The Wall Street Journal, CBC, and Time published good articles on the story behind the case filed by the Liberty Justice Center and myself.

Since  our win in the tariff case before the US Court of International Trade a couple days ago, there have been several informative media articles about the history of the case, and how the Liberty Justice Center and I decided to undertake it, and found our clients. In this post, I compile links to what I think are the most interesting ones.

Ruth Simon and James Fanelli of the Wall Street Journal have an article  entitled "How a Small Wine Importer Took On Trump's Tariffs" (paywalled) It tells the story of our lead plaintiff Victor Schwartz of VOS Selections. Also, it describes how the idea for the lawsuit originated with a post right here on the Volokh Conspiracy blog, which led Jeff Schwab of the Liberty Justice Center to reach out to me in hopes of pursuing the issue. We eventually agreed I would put up another post seeking potential clients for the case, which is how we found Victor and other potential clients. As the article describes we deliberately sought small businesses that directly import products from countries subject to the "Liberation Day" tariffs.

Mark Gollom  tells the same story in a bit less detail in an article for the Canadian CBC news site. Unlike the Wall Street Journal article, this one isn't paywalled!

Finally, Callum Sutherland of Time has an article profiling all five of our clients: VOS Selections, FishUSA, Microkits, Terry Precision Cycling, and Genova Pipe. Between them, they represent a a wide range of industries, from toys to wine to cycling apparel for women; a veritable cross-section of the many small businesses imperiled by Trump's trade war. We are proud to represent them!