Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Get our free Inside Washington email Email * SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. That precedent restricted nationwide or universal injunctions, legal mechanisms extending a court's judgment across all impacted entities rather than restricting relief solely to the individual plaintiffs involved in the suit. While Judge Richard Eaton, presiding over the trade court litigation, determined that restrictions regarding universal injunctions do not pertain to these tariff proceedings, the government maintains its opposition to his ruling. CBP has already processed and certified $100 billion in refunds ( Mario Tama/Getty Images )“The CIT’s universal injunctions, requiring the government to refund IEEPA duties for all importers (including non-party importers), cannot possibly be squared with CASA,” — the court case that limited universal injunctions, the government wrote it its brief. There's a Congressional rule that the CBP cannot reprocess tariffs for which the administrative refund process is no longer available.