U.S. District Judge Brett Ludwig for Eastern Wisconsin granted the motion of Milwaukee’s Deer District to intervene to prevent Verizon's installation of small cells and mounting poles for July’s Republican National Convention in the public pedestrian plaza the district controls outside the Fiserv Forum (see 2401230017), said his signed order Wednesday (docket 2:23-cv-01581).
The Commerce Department published notices in the Federal Register Jan. 26 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 Commerce Department has released the final results of the antidumping duty administrative review on passenger vehicle and light truck tires from Thailand (A-549-842). These final results will be used to set final assessments of AD duties on importers for subject merchandise entered Jan. 6, 2021, through June 30, 2022.
U.S. District Judge Jon Tigar for Northern California in San Francisco denied the joint request of nine former Twitter petitioner-employees and the X platform to postpone their initial case management conference until after the court’s March 14 hearing on the petitioners’ motion to compel arbitration and for preliminary injunction, said the judge’s text-only order Wednesday (docket 4:23-cv-03301). The Jan. 30 conference “will proceed as scheduled,” said the order. No case management statement is required, it said. The employees allege that Twitter and X refuse to arbitrate “despite having successfully blocked employees from pursuing their claims in court by compelling them to arbitrate their legal claims” (see 2401080001).
The Commerce Department has released the final results of its countervailing duty administrative review on polyethylene film, sheet and strip (PET film) from India (C-533-825). Commerce will set final assessments of CV duties on importers for subject merchandise from Jindal Poly Films Limited entered Jan. 1, 2021, through Dec. 31, 2021. The new CVD cash deposit rate takes effect for entries from these companies on or after Jan. 29, the date these final results are to be published in the Federal Register.
The defendants in a fraud complaint brought by the SEC need a 10-day deadline extension to Feb. 7 to confer with the commission and jointly submit a proposed discovery plan and a schedule for any preliminary injunction hearing, the SEC wrote U.S. District Judge Jesse Furman for Southern New York in Manhattan in a letter Wednesday (docket 1:23-cv-10928). The SEC sued Dec. 18 to stop three connected companies and their CEO from running a “staggering” fraud scheme involving a private Nigerian company, Tingo Mobile, that purportedly sourced mobile handsets and services to “millions of farmers,” but actually had “no meaningful operations or customers” (see 2312190018). The defendants need the additional time “to continue working through the funding and representation issues” involved in retaining counsel, said the SEC’s letter. The SEC doesn’t object to the deadline extension request, but believes those “funding and representation issues are unlikely to resolve” within the requested 10-day extension period “based on information recently disclosed,” said the letter. Resolution of the funding issues is “contingent” on the release of funds by a Nigerian bank, but the bank “has restricted access to the accounts after learning of this action,” it said. The SEC “stands ready” to proceed with this enforcement action and believes there’s “a compelling public interest in moving this case towards resolution of both the preliminary and final relief requested,” said the letter. The defendants’ inability to confer on a discovery plan and a preliminary injunction hearing schedule has delayed the SEC’s efforts to “expeditiously litigate its claims,” it said. In light of the SEC’s belief that resolution of the defendants’ funding issues won’t be “resolved imminently,” the SEC has advised the defendants that it won’t agree to further extension requests, it said.
The Commerce Department and the International Trade Commission published the following Federal Register notices Jan. 26 on AD/CVD proceedings:
Milwaukee’s Deer District, which seeks to intervene to prevent Verizon's installation of small cells and mounting poles for July’s Republican National Convention in the public pedestrian plaza it controls outside the Fiserv Forum (see 2401230017), seeks Husch Blackwell's disqualification as Verizon’s counsel in the case, said its motion Tuesday (docket 2:23-cv-01581) in U.S. District Court for Eastern Wisconsin in Milwaukee. Verizon's opposition, also filed Tuesday, contends the district has waived its disqualification argument.
The Commerce Department and the International Trade Commission published the following Federal Register notices Jan. 25 on AD/CVD proceedings:
The Commerce Department published notices in the Federal Register Jan. 25 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):