The Commerce Department and the International Trade Commission published the following Federal Register notices Nov. 26 on AD/CVD proceedings:

The International Trade Commission published notices in the Nov. 25 Federal Register on the following antidumping and countervailing duty injury, Section 337 patent or other trade proceedings (any notices that warrant a more detailed summary will be in another ITT article):

A broadening of Texas' version of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act earlier this year didn't "explicitly carve out a defense on the basis of consent," Mintz class-action lawyer Esteban Morales wrote last week. Even businesses that send text messages with otherwise compliant consent might still need to comply "with the statute’s onerous registration requirements," he said. But litigation brought by Ecommerce Marketers Alliance against Texas and its secretary of state about the lack of a clear consent defense has ended with "an industry-friendly order" that gives companies "powerful ammunition" against telephone solicitation claims. The plaintiffs had filed for a preliminary injunction, and in response, the state took the position that the law in fact should be interpreted to include a defense based on consent, Morales said. The parties then filed a joint motion for dismissal, he noted, and an order last week from the U.S. District Court for Western Texas said businesses operating consent-based text message marketing campaigns are specifically exempted from having to go through the registration step.

A federal judge preliminarily approved a proposed settlement in a Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA) case against Limited Run Games, a video game distributor.

The Commerce Department and the International Trade Commission published the following Federal Register notices Nov. 25 on AD/CVD proceedings:

Sling's TV day pass "has the potential to be all sorts of disruptive" in the U.S. TV market, TVRev's Alan Wolk wrote Friday. Sling said last week that it's offering $1 day passes to its Orange basic plan for a limited time to celebrate Disney being denied a preliminary injunction against the short-term Sling Passes, which the streamer launched in August. In an order rejecting the injunction last week (docket 1:25-cv-07169), Judge Arun Subramanian of the U.S. District Court for Southern New York wrote that Disney hadn't shown a likelihood of success on the merits. He said it's not clear that the passes are violating the contract Sling has with Disney, as the language regarding subscribers doesn't give a minimum subscription length, and Disney hadn't shown irreparable harm to warrant a preliminary injunction against the passes offering. In addition, Subramanian said Disney failed to show that harms to its relationships with other distributors or its business model can't be remedied through money damages.

The Swedish Police Authority suspects that "extensive" violations of Russia sanctions are being committed by companies indirectly exporting products from Sweden to Russia through third countries, the agency said in a notice last week.

The Commerce Department published notices in the Federal Register Nov. 19 on the following antidumping and countervailing duty (AD/CVD) proceedings (any notices that announce changes to AD/CVD rates, scope, affected firms or effective dates will be detailed in another ITT article):

A domestic producer recently filed a petition with the Commerce Department and the International Trade Commission requesting antidumping and countervailing duties be imposed on van-type trailers and subassemblies from Canada, Mexico and China. Commerce now will decide whether to begin AD/CVD investigations, which could result in the imposition of permanent AD/CVD orders and the assessment of AD and CVD on importers. The investigation was requested by the American Trailer Manufacturers Coalition, which consists of Great Dane, Stoughton Trailers and Wabash National Corp.

The U.S. District Court for Western Texas set a hearing for 10 a.m. CT on Dec. 16 on a preliminary injunction against the state’s app store age-verification law. SB-2420, set to go into effect Jan. 1, requires app stores to verify the age of users, so that kids younger than 18 cannot download certain apps or make in-app purchases without parental consent.