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Amazon.com Inc was sued connected Friday (May 15, 2026) by consumers seeking refunds for costs passed connected to them successful the signifier of higher prices arsenic a effect of tariffs the U.S. Supreme Court aboriginal concluded had been unlawfully imposed by President Donald Trump.
Consumers successful a projected class enactment filed successful national tribunal successful Seattle alleged that the e-commerce elephantine collected hundreds of millions of dollars successful unlawful tariff costs by raising prices connected imported goods earlier the Supreme Court had ruled.
The U.S. Supreme Court successful February concluded in a 6-3 determination that Mr. Trump overstepped his authorization by using the International Emergency Economic Powers Act to enforce his sweeping tariffs.
Thousands of companies person begun to question billions of dollars successful refunds from the authorities pursuing the ruling.
But Amazon has not, which the lawsuit alleged was "not due to the fact that it lacks a ineligible ground to bash so, but due to the fact that it seeks to curry favour with Mr. Trump by allowing the national authorities to clasp the funds."
"The occupation is that the funds Amazon is utilizing to enactment successful the President's bully graces bash not beryllium to Amazon,” the suit says. "These funds were wrongfully taken from consumers to screen IEEPA Tariffs that person since been invalidated."
The suit asserts claims of unjust enrichment and usurpation of Washington state's consumer-protection law.
Amazon did not respond to a petition for comment.
The suit follows respective earlier cases filed by consumers accusing companies ranging from Costco to Nike to FedEx of failing to walk connected tariff refunds to consumers.
Unlike companies that imported goods, consumers are not eligible to question tariff refunds from the authorities for the higher costs they incurred portion they were successful effect, Friday's (May 15) suit notes.
To enactment its assertion that authorities were down Amazon's actions, the suit notes that successful April 2025, the institution faced White House blowback aft a study that it was considering displaying how overmuch of a product's outgo came from the IEEPA tariffs.
Amazon denied the communicative and said it ne'er considered listing tariff prices connected its main retail site. But the study prompted Mr. Trump to telephone Amazon Executive Chairman Jeff Bezos to complain, the suit says.
