The nation’s highest court is set to rule on the legality of some of Trump’s tariffs, but businesses will still be on the hook for others. 

BY JENNIFER CONRAD, SENIOR WRITER @JENNIFERCONRAD

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The past year has seen business owners ripping up and revising their business plans in response to on-again, off-again tariff announcements. More than a thousand businesses have sued the administration challenging the legality of many of the tariffs introduced by President Donald Trump since the start of his second term.  

Two of those suits, Learning Resources, Inc. v. Trump and V.O.S Selections v. Trump, have been consolidated into a single case currently before the Supreme Court. The court rule as early as Friday on the legality of tariffs Trump imposed under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA).  

“I didn’t feel like it was an option to allow our company to be snuffed out by government policies that I think are misguided,” Rick Woldenberg, the founder of the educational toy company Learning Resources, told Inc. soon after filing the suit. “I didn’t believe anyone was going to save us, so I decided that we needed to save us.” 

Trump says the tariffs will make American goods more competitive, and he has promised Americans $2,000 tariff rebate checks. His critics argue that the authority to impose tariffs 

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