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5 Businesses Challenging Trump Administration Policies in Court

Learning Resources, hand2mind, Burlap & Barrel, Basic Fun!, and Revolution Wind have challenged specific Trump administration actions in separate legal cases.
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Five businesses have taken documented legal action against specific Trump administration policies: Learning Resources, hand2mind, Revolution Wind, Burlap & Barrel, and Basic Fun!. Their cases concern tariffs or an offshore-wind stop-work order—not a shared campaign against Donald Trump personally. The disputes are separate, and the list is illustrative rather than a ranking or a complete tally.

What “fighting” means in these cases

Here, “fighting” means filing or joining a legal challenge to a particular administration action. A lawsuit states a company’s legal position; it does not by itself establish that the company has won, or that it opposes Trump more broadly. The five examples involve different industries, legal authorities, and procedural stages.

Businesses challenging tariff policies

Learning Resources, Inc.

Learning Resources, an educational-toy company, sued over tariffs imposed by the Trump administration. Reuters described it as one of the first small businesses to challenge the tariffs and reported that it filed another suit with other small businesses in July 2026 over a later round of Section 301 tariffs. Reuters’ cited report does not establish the full list of plaintiffs in that later case. Reuters’ coverage also attributes to a 2025 U.S. report the estimate that small businesses account for about 97% of U.S. importers and about $868 billion in goods annually; that figure is an attributed estimate, not an independently verified finding here.

hand2mind, Inc.

hand2mind is a separate educational-toy manufacturer and Learning Resources’ sister company. It was identified as a plaintiff in the tariff litigation. Both companies’ disputes relate to tariffs on imported goods, though their corporate relationship does not make them a single plaintiff.

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Burlap & Barrel, Inc.

Burlap & Barrel, a spice importer, is identified by Reuters as a plaintiff challenging Trump administration tariffs imposed under Section 122. The company’s role as an importer distinguishes its case context from the offshore-wind dispute described below. Reuters’ report on the Section 122 tariff plaintiffs identifies the companies in that challenge.

Basic Fun!

Basic Fun!, a toy company, is also named by Reuters as a plaintiff in the Section 122 tariff challenge. Its case belongs to the same tariff dispute as Burlap & Barrel’s, rather than to the separate litigation over Learning Resources’ later Section 301 challenge.

Revolution Wind: challenging an offshore-wind stop-work order

What the project challenged

Revolution Wind LLC, the project company behind an offshore-wind development associated with Ørsted and Skyborn Renewables, challenged a federal stop-work order issued on August 22, 2025. This case concerns construction of an energy project, not import tariffs.

What happened next

The Rhode Island Office of the Attorney General reports that the project secured a preliminary injunction on January 12, 2026, preserving it while litigation continues. A preliminary injunction is not a final judgment resolving every claim. The Attorney General’s office says the project is expected to deliver enough electricity for 350,000 homes, or 2.5% of New England’s electricity supply, beginning in 2026; those are project forecasts, not measured results. The Rhode Island Attorney General’s update describes the injunction and order, while the office’s project-scale information gives the forecast.

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How the cases differ

Business or project Sector and role Administration action at issue Reported status or detail
Learning Resources, Inc. Educational toys; importer Tariffs, including a later round of Section 301 tariffs Reuters reported a new suit with other small businesses in July 2026; the full plaintiff list for that later case is not established in its cited report.
hand2mind, Inc. Educational toys; importer; sister company of Learning Resources Tariff measures Identified as a plaintiff in tariff litigation.
Burlap & Barrel, Inc. Spices; importer Section 122 tariffs Identified by Reuters as a plaintiff in the Section 122 challenge.
Basic Fun! Toys Section 122 tariffs Identified by Reuters as a plaintiff in the Section 122 challenge.
Revolution Wind LLC Offshore wind; project company Federal stop-work order issued August 22, 2025 Preliminary injunction reported January 12, 2026; not a final judgment on every claim.

The tariff suits and the wind-project challenge invoke different legal disputes and affect different business activities. Their presence on this list does not show that the companies coordinated with one another or share the same political motive.

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