The Court of International Trade is currently considering the case of Lizarraga Customs Broker v. Bureau of CBP et al. regarding U.S. Customs and Border Protection's deactivation of the entry filer code of a customs broker who, according to CBP, sold the use of his code to unauthorized third parties and repeatedly misused it in other ways.
DirecTV doesn’t think its merger with Liberty Entertainment will face any regulatory hurdles, a company official said, though the deal will require FCC and Securities and Exchange Commission approval. The FCC has jurisdiction of DirecTV license transfers, DirecTV spokesman Darris Gringeri said, but he expects the deal to be finalized by Q4. However, cable operators may have concerns about the deal, American Cable Association President Matthew Polka said.
DirecTV doesn’t think its merger with Liberty Entertainment will face any regulatory hurdles, a company official said, though the deal will require FCC and Securities and Exchange Commission approval. The FCC has jurisdiction of DirecTV license transfers, DirecTV spokesman Darris Gringeri said, but he expects the deal to be finalized by Q4. However, cable operators may have concerns about the deal, American Cable Association President Matthew Polka said.
The International Trade Administration has issued its preliminary results of the following antidumping duty administrative and new shipper reviews:
GENEVA -- European consensus is beginning to form around the idea of a new mechanism to identify counties that need to coordinate with the 120 nations that negotiated the 2006 digital radio and TV frequency plan for Europe, Africa and the Middle East, ITU-R participants said. Proposals supporting and opposing the idea were made to an ITU-R group preparing studies for the 2011 World Radiocommunication Conference agenda item 1.17 on sharing the 790-862 MHz band in most of the world except the Americas.
According to an email from Trucking.org, on April 29, 2009, the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California issued its final ruling preliminarily enjoining certain Long Beach and Los Angeles Port Concession Plan requirements of the Clean Truck Program. Trucking.org states that the final ruling is essentially the same as the April 27, 2009 draft ruling (but with additional language set forth in footnotes 4, 16 & 21, addressing the ports' discretionary decision-making power, concession filing fees and the LA incentive payment program, respectively). For email copy of ruling, send requests to documents@brokerpower.com .
A federal judge is handling very deliberately a request by movie studios to extend her ban on RealNetworks’ RealDVD technology for copying DVDs (CED April 27 p7). With no end to testimony by evening Wednesday -- the last day of three scheduled for a preliminary-injunction hearing in U.S. District Court in San Francisco -- Judge Marilyn Patel set aside May 7 and 8 to resume. There’s no guarantee that the closing arguments can get done by then, both sides said. In testimony this week, RealNetworks CEO Rob Glaser showed a prototype livingroom player, code-named “Facet,” to use the RealDVD technology. When Patel issued a temporary restraining order against RealDVD in October, Real had announced plans only to start selling imminently $30 downloads for copying discs to PCs. A Facet owner could copy hundreds of DVDs to the device’s hard drive and easily choose and switch among the movies and TV shows, Glaser testified. He said Real foresaw the Facet, at about $300 retail, as a mass-market alternative to the high-end Kaleidescape media jukebox and a possible source of licensing revenue from original equipment manufacturers of similar boxes. Glaser said Real had held discussions with companies including TiVo, LG and Sharp. He said Real would do what it could to discourage RealDVD users from copying discs they don’t own. He conceded that it couldn’t prevent that without technical cooperation from the studios. Patel has twice closed the hearing, over protests by CNet, for testimony about CSS encryption from the DVD Copy Control Association. It’s vigorously contended that the information qualifies as trade secrets though the protection was broken years ago. The public version of papers filed in the case are replete with blackouts to protect technical information that the association, the studios or Real considers confidential.
A federal judge is handling very deliberately a request by movie studios to extend her ban on RealNetworks’ RealDVD technology for copying DVDs (WID April 27 p7). With no end to testimony by evening Wednesday -- the last day of three scheduled for a preliminary-injunction hearing in U.S. District Court in San Francisco -- Judge Marilyn Patel set aside May 7 and 8 to resume. There’s no guarantee that the closing arguments can get done by then, both sides said. In testimony this week, RealNetworks CEO Rob Glaser showed a prototype livingroom player, code-named “Facet,” to use the RealDVD technology. When Patel issued a temporary restraining order against RealDVD in October, Real had announced plans only to start selling imminently $30 downloads for copying discs to PCs. A Facet owner could copy hundreds of DVDs to the device’s hard drive and easily choose and switch among the movies and TV shows, Glaser testified. He said Real foresaw the Facet, at about $300 retail, as a mass-market alternative to the high-end Kaleidescape media jukebox and a possible source of licensing revenue from original equipment manufacturers of similar boxes. Glaser said Real had held discussions with companies including TiVo, LG and Sharp. He said Real would do what it could to discourage RealDVD users from copying discs they don’t own. He conceded that it couldn’t prevent that without technical cooperation from the studios. Patel has twice closed the hearing, over protests by CNet, for testimony about CSS encryption from the DVD Copy Control Association. It’s vigorously contended that the information qualifies as trade secrets though the protection was broken years ago. The public version of papers filed in the case are replete with blackouts to protect technical information that the association, the studios or Real considers confidential.
Boeing said it completed a system-level Preliminary Design Review for its Tracking and Data Relay Satellite system K-L program. The comprehensive five-day review was held in El Segundo, Calif., in March and was attended by NASA project, program and headquarters officials, Boeing said.
The International Trade Administration frequently issues notices on antidumping and countervailing duty orders, investigations, etc. which Broker Power considers to be "minor" in importance as they concern actions that occur after an order is issued, neither announce nor cause any changes to an order's duty rates, scope, affected firms, or effective period, etc.