TOKYO -- A ruling by a U.S. trade court finding much of President Donald Trump's tariff regime illegal, turning a spotlight on the constitutional separation of powers, hearkens back to a case five decades ago in which a Japanese company spurred courts to hit the brakes on a president's trade policy.
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