The senators from Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas and Louisiana asked the commerce secretary to reverse a preliminary decision to reduce the "Vietnam-wide" antidumping rate for Vietnamese catfish exporters that haven't been assigned their own rate to 14 cents per kilogram, from a previous $2.39/kg rate.
The X platform thinks the district court “improperly applied” the U.S. Supreme Court’s 1985 decision in Zauderer v. Office of Disciplinary Counsel of the Supreme Court of Ohio when it denied X’s motion for a preliminary injunction to block California from enforcing the state’s social media transparency law (AB-587) that took effect Jan. 1 (see 2401020002), said X’s mediation questionnaire Friday (docket 24-271) at the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Zauderer widened protection for commercial speech by striking down most of Ohio’s restrictions on advertising by attorneys. But Zauderer doesn’t “apply here” because the compelled speech at issue “is content-based, not commercial, not purely factual, and not uncontroversial,” said the questionnaire. X thinks AB-587 violates the First Amendment because it compels X “to engage in speech against its will,” it said. AB-587 also interferes with X’s “constitutionally protected editorial judgments,” it said. The statute also “has both the purpose and likely effect” of pressuring X to “remove, demonetize, or deprioritize” constitutionally protected speech that the state “deems undesirable or harmful,” it said. Because the California legislature passed AB-587, and because the parties disagree about its constitutional and legal validity, X doesn’t believe “this action is appropriate for mediation,” said the questionnaire. In denying the preliminary injunction motion, the district court held that X “failed to establish a likelihood of success on the merits” of its First Amendment and Section 230 preemption challenges, it said.
Consumer and industry advocates sounded alarms late last week over a proposed California ballot initiative that would make social media companies liable for up to $1 million in damages for each child their platform injures. Courts would likely find that Common Sense CEO James Steyer’s December proposal violates the First Amendment and Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, said comments California DOJ forwarded to us Friday. For example, “Initiative 23-0035 is a misguided and unconstitutional proposal that will restrict all Californians’ access to online information,” the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) said.
NetChoice hasn't alleged a “cognizable" First Amendment injury to its members that could establish its "associational standing,” said Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost (R) in a memorandum Friday (docket 2:24-cv-00047) in U.S. District Court for Southern Ohio in Columbus opposing NetChoice’s motion for a preliminary injunction to block him from enforcing the state's Social Media Operators Act.
The Commerce Department published notices in the Federal Register Jan. 22 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 is beginning new antidumping duty investigations on glass wine bottles from Chile, China and Mexico, as well as a new countervailing duty investigation on glass wine bottles from China, it said in a fact sheet Jan. 19. The underlying petition was filed in December (see 2401030043). The International Trade Commission is scheduled to make its preliminary injury determinations by Feb. 12. These AD/CVD investigations will continue only if the ITC finds injury. International Trade Today will provide more details upon publication of the initiation notices in the Federal Register.
The Commerce Department and the International Trade Commission published the following Federal Register notices Jan. 22 on AD/CVD proceedings:
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals assigned case number 24-271 to the X platform’s appeal of the district court's Dec. 28 denial of its motion for a preliminary injunction to block California from enforcing AB-587, the state’s social media transparency law (see 2401160031), said a text-only docket entry Thursday. X sought to block AB-587's enforcement on grounds that it violates the First Amendment and that federal law preempts it. Denial of the injunction turned on X’s failure to establish its likelihood of success on the merits, said the memorandum and order signed by U.S. District Judge William Shubb for Eastern California.
The senators from Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas and Louisiana asked the commerce secretary to reverse a preliminary decision to reduce the "Vietnam-wide" antidumping rate for Vietnamese catfish exporters that haven't been assigned their own rate to 14 cents per kilogram, from a previous $2.39/kg rate.
Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird (R) sued TikTok for deceiving Iowa parents about “children’s widespread access to inappropriate content” on its platform, said her Wednesday news release announcing a fraud complaint against the social media platform in Iowa District Court for Polk County in Des Moines.