In an order submitted by the Court of International Trade (CIT), a motion requested by importer Atmus Filtration to expand case management procedures in their suit on refunds for tariffs imposed by the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) was denied.

In their motion, Atmus Filtration had requested that the court establish a “master case” and a plaintiff’s steering committee as the plaintiff feels unprepared to “speak for all plaintiffs in the IEEPA Tariff Cases, let alone for all affected importers, regarding the functional or legal sufficiency of CBP’s proposals.:

Atmus Filtration’s motion can be found here:
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cit.19346/gov.uscourts.cit.19346.45.0.pdf

The denial of this motion can be found here:
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cit.19346/gov.uscourts.cit.19346.46.0.pdf