Morgan & Morgan’s FedEx Tariffs Class Action: Fighting Back for Every Penny You Were Owed

When FedEx customers challenged unlawful tariff fees tied to international shipments, Morgan & Morgan filed a class action lawsuit and sparked a national conversation on corporate accountability and consumer rights.

On February 20, 2026, the United States Supreme Court ruled 6–3 that President Trump's use of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) to impose sweeping tariffs was unconstitutional. 

For the millions of American consumers who had quietly absorbed those charges, billed by carriers like FedEx before they could even receive their packages, the ruling raised a simple question: 

How do we get our money back? 

Morgan & Morgan answered that question one week later.

The Case: One Pair of Tennis Shoes. A Fight for Millions.

Matthew Reiser, a Miami resident, ordered tennis shoes from a German retailer in January 2026. Before FedEx would release his package, he was billed $36 ($21 in IEEPA tariff duties and $15 in brokerage and clearance fees) for goods that legally should have carried a duty rate of zero. 

He was one of millions of Americans who paid these charges and had no straightforward mechanism to get them back.

On February 27, 2026, Morgan & Morgan filed a proposed class action in Miami federal court on his behalf, seeking not just Reiser's $36, but a full refund for every American consumer who was similarly charged.

FedEx had made a public statement saying it intended to return refunds to customers if the government reimbursed the company. Our team's position was clear: a press release is not a legal obligation. We asked the court to impose one.

"FedEx is the only entity with legal standing to seek a refund of duties directly from the government. This leaves consumers like our client with no choice but to try to legally compel FedEx to refund them for the tariffs that they were charged — not to mention the ancillary fees FedEx added to process these transactions."

— John Morgan, Founder & Attorney, Morgan & Morgan, and John Yanchunis

The Impact: A Story the World Needed to Hear

The filing landed at the intersection of constitutional law, consumer rights, and a live national debate, and the media responded accordingly. 

Within days, coverage of the suit reached an estimated 900 million people across global outlets, generating more than $8 million in earned media value. With a Business Insider interview in the pipeline, the story continues to build.

Reuters detailed the class action on behalf of customers who paid duty and fees that allegedly shouldn’t have been levied following the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling striking down emergency tariffs under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA). The report notes that FedEx told the press it would refund any tariff reimbursements it receives, but that pledge may not amount to a legally binding consumer guarantee, a key argument in the Morgan & Morgan-led case. This story was also picked up by US News and 50 other outlets.

Bloomberg has also covered the broader tariff refund story, highlighting how individual buyers, not just corporate shippers, are stepping up with proposed class actions against companies that passed tariff costs to consumers.

This was not a case that got attention because it was flashy. It got attention because it was right. When the biggest shipping company in the country promises customers a refund without any legal obligation to deliver one, someone has to make that promise binding. That's what we do.

Our Practice: Class Actions For the People

When tariffs skyrocketed, it didn’t cost companies a dime. That expense was transferred to the consumer, and it is the consumer who is owed a refund.

Matthew Reiser paid $36 in charges he never should have owed. Now multiply that $36 by millions of consumers, all shipped with the same fees, by the same company, under the same unlawful authority, and you have exactly the kind of widespread corporate harm that class action litigation was designed to address.

Morgan & Morgan has been at the front of these fights for more than three decades. Our class action practice has helped win legal judgments totaling millions of dollars for clients across consumer protection, data privacy, wage theft, defective products, and corporate fraud. We don't take cases because they're easy. We take them because they're necessary.

The FedEx suit sends a message to every company holding on to illegally collected consumer funds: someone is watching, and justice is coming. Our goal, in the words of John Morgan and attorney John Yanchunis, is to return to American consumers every penny they were improperly charged.

If you paid tariff fees to FedEx or another carrier for imported goods between February 4, 2025 and February 24, 2026, you may have a claim. The team is ready to hear from you.

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