The Commerce Department and the International Trade Commission published the following Federal Register notices Jan. 3 on AD/CVD proceedings:
U.S. solar cell maker Auxin Solar and solar module designer Concept Clean Energy launched a lawsuit at the Court of International Trade on Dec. 29 to contest the Commerce Department's pause of antidumping and countervailing duties on crystalline silicon photovoltaic cells and modules from Southeast Asian found to be circumventing the AD/CVD orders on these products from China (Auxin Solar v. U.S., CIT # 23-00274).
Matthew Gorman’s class action against Sovos Compliance should remain in the In re MOVEit Customer Data Security Breach Litigation multidistrict litigation (MDL), said the plaintiff’s interested party response (docket 3083) Thursday to Sovos’ motion to vacate conditional transfer order 15 (CTO-15) before the U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation. Midland States Bank, a defendant in Gorman’s action, filed notice in support of Sovos’ motion the same day.
Thursday’s denial of a preliminary injunction that X, formerly Twitter, requested to block California Attorney General Rob Bonta (D) from enforcing the state’s social media transparency law (AB-587) cleared Bonta to collect “terms of service” reports from social media companies. They are the first reports under the statute and came due when the law took effect Monday. Hereafter reports will be due each April 1 and Oct. 1, requiring platforms to describe how they're enforcing content moderation policies.
The Commerce Department published notices in the Federal Register Jan. 2 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 and the International Trade Commission published the following Federal Register notices Dec. 29 and Jan. 2 on AD/CVD proceedings:
The Court of International Trade won't order the Commerce Department "to ignore information" antidumping duty respondent Navneet Education "voluntarily put on the record," the trade court ruled in Dec. 29 decision sustaining the 2019-20 AD review on notebook paper from India.
Private research universities like Stanford and their researchers aren’t “state actors” subject to constitutional constraints “just because they speak to the government about their research,” said Stanford’s Dec. 26 amicus brief at the U.S. Supreme Court in support of the petitioners in Murthy v. Missouri (docket 23-411) who seek to vacate the 5th Circuit’s injunction against government involvement in social media content moderation.
The Commerce Department published notices in the Federal Register Dec. 29 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 its countervailing duty administrative review on glycine from India (C-533-884). It said it made changes to its preliminary results of this review based on comments received. The agency set new CVD cash deposit rates for exporters of subject merchandise. These final results will be used to set final assessments of CVD on importers for subject merchandise entered during calendar year 2021.