Learning Resources
Learning Resources CEO Rick Woldenberg sued the Trump administration over tariffs that would have increased the company's annual import duties from $2.3 million to $100 million, arguing the President lacked authority under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act. The Supreme Court ruled 6-3 in February 2026 that the President cannot impose tariffs under IEEPA, invalidating a key part of Trump's trade policy and triggering potential refunds of $166 billion to importers. Despite the administration seeking alternative tariff methods, Woldenberg views the outcome as a validation of the legal system's fairness and accessibility.
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Learning Resources makes the globes, toy clocks, and math counters kids use in classroom lessons. But when President Trump's tariffs threatened to raise the company’s projected annual import duties from $2.3 million to $100 million, CEO Rick Woldenberg did what many larger companies would not: he sued. The Vernon Hills, Illinois-based educational toy maker—a fourth-generation family business with roughly 500 employees—filed suit in April 2025, arguing that the President had no authority under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) to impose tariffs. Woldenberg, a former lawyer, took the fight all the way to the Supreme Court—and won. "The cost of not standing up was far greater than the cost of standing up,” he says. On Feb.
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