The Commerce Department this week announced plans to provide about $20 billion in funding and loans to Intel under the Chips Act, which it said will “strengthen” the U.S. semiconductor supply chain by ensuring more leading-edge logic chips are made in America. Commerce said Intel expects to invest more than $100 billion over the next five years to set up new chip fabs and other facilities in Arizona, New Mexico, Ohio and Oregon, and coupled with Chips Act funding, that “would mark one of the largest investments ever announced in U.S. semiconductor manufacturing.”
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals should affirm the district court’s denial of X’s motion for a preliminary injunction to block California Attorney General Rob Bonta (D) from enforcing the state’s social media transparency law, AB-587 (see 2401020002), said five First Amendment and internet law scholars in an amicus brief Tuesday (docket 24-271) in support of the law.
The International Trade Commission published notices in the March 20 Federal Register on the following AD/CVD injury, Section 337 patent or other trade proceedings (any notices that warrant a more detailed summary will be in another ITT article):
The Commerce Department published notices in the Federal Register March 20 on the following AD/CV duty proceedings (any notices that announce changes to AD/CV duty rates, scope, affected firms or effective dates will be detailed in another ITT article):
The Council of the EU on March 19 approved reform efforts for the EU Court of Justice, transferring jurisdiction of various issues to the EU General Court. The council must now approve amendments to both courts' rules of procedure before the changes take effect.
The Council of the EU on March 19 approved reform efforts for the EU Court of Justice, transferring jurisdiction of various issues to the EU General Court. The council must now approve amendments to both courts' rules of procedure before the changes take effect.
The Commerce Department and the International Trade Commission published the following Federal Register notices March 20 on AD/CVD proceedings:
A listing of recent Commerce Department antidumping and countervailing duty messages posted on CBP's website March 18, along with the case number(s) and CBP message number, is provided below. The messages are available by searching for the listed CBP message number at CBP's ADCVD Search page.
Meta seeks an injunction pending appeal to preliminarily enjoin the FTC’s “structurally unconstitutional” privacy enforcement action against the company, said its emergency motion Monday (docket 24-5054) in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.
The allegations of the Daily Wire, Federalist Media and Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) that the State Department and its Global Engagement Center (CEG) have engaged in a “widespread government censorship regime” to stifle right-leaning media “are laden with hyperbole and lack any factual support or basis in the law,” said DOJ’s response Friday (docket 6:23-cv-00609) in U.S. District Court for Eastern Texas in Tyler in opposition to the plaintiffs’ Feb. 6 motion for a preliminary injunction (see 2402080044). GEC is an office tasked by Congress “with an essential foreign policy mission to respond to urgent, novel, and rapidly evolving threats from disinformation campaigns waged by America’s foreign adversaries,” said DOJ. Congress recognized that technology is critical to GEC’s mission “because the overwhelming majority of disinformation from foreign state and non-state actors is spread online,” it said. The plaintiffs’ claims “suffer from a central Article III problem,” it said. “As a threshold matter, the complaint should be dismissed for lack of jurisdiction,” it said. Even accepting the complaint’s allegations as true, the speculative chain of possibilities that they describe can’t establish any injury-in-fact that’s certainly impending and traceable to the defendants’ conduct or redressable by the court, it said. The plaintiffs’ theory of standing also can’t survive a factual attack under Rule 12(b)(1), “because multiple links in their alleged causal chain are conclusively contradicted by the record,” it said.