DOJ: No reason to accelerate California’s tariff appeal

The Justice Department is pushing a federal appeals court not to expedite California’s challenge to International Emergency Economic Powers Act tariffs, saying the state’s insistence on keeping its case separate out of the Court of International Trade means any delay it now faces is “self-inflicted.” The Golden State’s claim that it faces irreparable harm from prolonged litigation over the IEEPA tariffs “cannot be squared with plaintiffs’ deliberate choice to forgo transfer to the CIT,” DOJ wrote in a June 5...