US: Nintendo’s lawsuit against government automatically paused

Game File is reporting this afternoon that Nintendo’s lawsuit against the U.S government over tariffs has been automatically paused. The case is now pending the results of a tariff case submitted from the Court of International Trade to the Supreme Court. The case will resume along with other companies which have been negatively impacted from the tariffs, though it’s not clear when. Here’s what Game File says:

• Nintendo is one of hundreds of companies that sued the U.S. in the Court of International Trade. Last December, a judge on the CIT ordered that all such cases would be automatically stayed pending the results of a tariff case that had made it to the U.S. Supreme Court. The Supreme Court then ruled in February that the tariffs were illegal. 
• Two days before Nintendo’s suit was filed, a judge in the trade court ruled that companies impacted by tariffs should receive refunds. Those refunds could be issued starting in April, but many companies have yet to say if they’ll pass the money on to consumers, Popular Info notes. (A Nintendo rep did not directly say whether the company planned to pass refunds along to its customers, when asked about it by Game File last week.)

Thanks to SonicGalaxy27 for sending in the news tip!