FedEx, UPS, Oakley Face Lawsuits Over Trump Tariff Refunds
FedEx Corp., United Parcel Service, and the maker of Ray-Ban and Oakley sunglasses are facing proposed class action lawsuits seeking to recover payments for import duties and fees associated with the Trump administration's emergency tariffs, which were invalidated by the U.S. Supreme Court last week.
On Friday, injury law firm Morgan and Morgan filed suit against FedEx Logistics (NYSE: FDX) in the U.S. District Court for Southern Florida. The lawsuit seeks a full refund of duties paid by an individual in Miami and aims to represent millions of other consumers similarly impacted by the tariffs and fees passed on by FedEx after they were paid to the government. The plaintiff, Matthew Reiser, paid $36 in duty and fees on a pair of tennis shoes he bought from Tennis Warehouse Europe, a German company, on January 27.
"FedEx is the only entity with legal standing to seek a refund of duties directly from the government. This leaves consumers like our client with no choice but to try to legally compel FedEx to refund them for the tariffs that they were charged by FedEx, not to mention the ancillary fees FedEx added to process these transactions," said Morgan & Morgan founder John Morgan and attorney John Yanchunis, in a statement. "Our goal is to return to American consumers every penny they were improperly charged."
New Yorker Nathan Ward filed a proposed class action lawsuit on Thursday against EssilorLuxottica S.A., the multinational maker of Ray-Ban, Oakley, and Costa sunglasses. The company...