After hearing oral argument, U.S. District Judge Trina Thompson took under submission Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s motion for a temporary restraining order against Google, said a text-only minute entry in U.S. District Court for Northern California in San Francisco Monday. Kennedy, a 2024 Democratic presidential candidate, sued Google in a freedom of speech lawsuit for removing videos of Kennedy’s comments on COVID-19 and other vaccines (see 2308030049). Thompson set jury selection and trial for March 17, 2025, with a final pretrial conference set for Feb. 13, 2025. An in-person hearing on Kennedy’s motion for a preliminary injunction against YouTube to prevent the streaming platform from enforcing its medical misinformation policies, and Google’s motion to dismiss, is set for Nov. 7 at 2 p.m., said a Monday tentative case management and scheduling order (docket 3:23-cv-03880).
U.S. District Judge Thomas Zilly for Western Washington in Seattle granted in part and denied in part the parties’ Aug. 14 stipulated motion to stay until Oct. 6 the Telephone Consumer Protection Act case brought by plaintiffs LaVonne and Wesley Rodgers against DoorDash and to reset initial deadlines in the case, said a clerk’s signed minute order Monday (docket 3:23-cv-05564). Zilly honored the parties’ request to extend DoorDash’s deadline to Oct. 13 for answering the Rodgers’ complaint but declined to enter a stay in the case, said the order. The plaintiffs allege DoorDash repeatedly inundated their personal cellphone with telemarketing calls using an autodialer or an artificial or prerecorded voice (see 2306270004). The parties “have been engaged in diligent preliminary discussions concerning a potential resolution and have determined that this case is ripe for an early mediation,” said their Aug. 14 motion. The parties are in the process of selecting a mediator and scheduling a mediation session, it said. A stay until Oct. 6 would allow the parties “to focus their energies on a potential resolution, and avoid the expense of litigation in the interim,” said the motion.
A listing of recent Commerce Department antidumping and countervailing duty messages posted on CBP's website Aug. 22, 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.
The Commerce Department published notices in the Federal Register Aug. 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 issued notices in the Federal Register on its recently initiated antidumping duty investigations on mattresses from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Burma, India, Italy, Kosovo, Mexico, the Philippines, Poland, Slovenia, Spain, and Taiwan (A-893-002, A-487-001, A-546-001, A-533-919, A-475-845, A-803-001, A-201-859, A-565-804, A-455-807, A-856-002, A-469-826, A-583-873), and its countervailing duty investigation on mattresses from Indonesia (C-560-839). The CVD investigation covers entries for the calendar year 2022. The AD investigations cover entries July 1, 2022, through June 30, 2023.
The Commerce Department and the International Trade Commission published the following Federal Register notices Aug. 22 on AD/CVD proceedings:
Charter Communications seeks a temporary and preliminary injunction to prevent Bridger Mahlum, its former director-state government affairs, from continuing to breach his noncompete agreement and from misappropriating Charter’s trade secrets involving state broadband funding, said its complaint Friday (docket 3:23-cv-01106) in U.S. District Court for Connecticut in New Haven.
Montana’s statewide TikTok ban, SB-419, “exercises Montana’s consumer-protection power to stop a host of data-privacy and related harms by prohibiting TikTok from operating in Montana,” said Attorney General Austin Knudsen’s (R) memorandum Friday (docket 9:23-cv-00061) in U.S. District Court for Montana in Missoula in opposition to the plaintiffs’ consolidated motion for a preliminary injunction. The plaintiffs are a group of TikTok users and influencers (see 2305190035), plus TikTok itself (see 2305230053), all seeking to block Knudsen from enforcing SB-419 starting Jan. 1.
Mediation was unsuccessful in a case from U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit Judge Pauline Newman against three of her colleagues' investigation into the judge's fitness to continue serving on the court. Per a joint status report submitted to the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, the parties are looking to continue briefing on Newman's motion for a preliminary injunction against the Federal Circuit Judicial Council's order barring Newman from receiving new cases (Hon. Pauline Newman v. Hon. Kimberly Moore, D.D.C. # 23-01334).
The Commerce Department is beginning new antidumping duty investigations on mattresses from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Burma, India, Italy, Kosovo, Mexico, the Philippines, Poland, Slovenia, Spain and Taiwan, as well as a new countervailing duty investigation on mattresses from Indonesia, it said in a fact sheet Aug. 18. The underlying petition was filed July 28 (see 2308150006). The International Trade Commission is scheduled to make its preliminary injury determinations by Sept. 11. 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.