Comcast’s preliminary injunction showing “is virtually unrebutted” in its attempt to block MaxLinear from walking away from its contractual obligations to supply chips for Comcast’s broadband gateways (see 2305300045), said Comcast’s reply memorandum of law Thursday (docket 1:23-cv-04436) in U.S. District Court for Southern New York in Manhattan in further support of the injunction. A hearing on Comcast’s injunction motion is set for Sept. 13 at noon EDT (see 2307180044).
The several Computer & Communications Industry Association members “directly regulated” by Montana’s TikTok ban (SB-419) will have their “core First Amendment rights” infringed unless the law is enjoined, said the association’s amicus brief Thursday (docket 9:23-cv-00056) in U.S. District Court for Montana in Missoula. CCIA filed the brief in support of the preliminary injunction the plaintiffs seek to block Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen (R) from enforcing SB-419 when it takes effect Jan. 1.
The Commerce Department issued the final results of the antidumping duty administrative review on forged steel fluid end blocks from Italy (A-475-840). Commerce determined the only company under review, Lucchini Mame Forge S.p.A. (Lucchini), made sales of subject merchandise for less than fair value during the period of review, assigning it a 2.97% AD duty rate, which is up slightly from the 2.21% rate from the preliminary results. Subject merchandise from Lucchini entered July 23, 2020, through Dec. 31, 2021, will be liquidated at importer-specific rates. Changes to cash deposit rates from these final results take effect Aug. 14.
NetChoice and Arkansas Attorney General Tim Griffin (R) exchanged dueling briefs Wednesday in U.S. District Court for Western Arkansas in Fayetteville over whether NetChoice and its members have third-party standing to challenge the state’s social media age verification law on their own behalf or on behalf of current and future social media users (see 2307280019). NetChoice seeks a preliminary injunction to block Griffin from enforcing the measure, SB-396, when it takes effect Sept. 1 (see 2307100005).
The Republican attorneys general of Louisiana and Missouri, plus the five individual co-plaintiffs in their social media complaint against the Biden administration, “would be entitled to a preliminary injunction” if they could demonstrate that a government threat directed at conduct by social media companies caused them “irreparable injury,” said DOJ attorney Daniel Tenny in 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals oral argument Thursday. “They have not made any such showing, despite months of discovery,” said Tenny.
The efforts by the Republican attorneys general of Louisiana and Missouri to defend the social media injunction against the government “only underscore” the injunction’s many “deficiencies,” said DOJ’s reply brief Tuesday (docket 23-30445) at the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in support of reversing the injunction. U.S. District Judge Terry Doughty for Western Louisiana imposed the injunction July 4, temporarily stayed 10 days later by the 5th Circuit pending appeal (see 2307140067), barring dozens of Biden administration officials from conversing with the social media companies about content moderation.
The Commerce Department and the International Trade Commission published the following Federal Register notices Aug. 9 on AD/CVD proceedings:
The Commerce Department and the International Trade Commission published the following Federal Register notices Aug. 9 on AD/CVD proceedings:
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals made clear that it stayed its mandate pending Apple’s forthcoming cert petition at the U.S. Supreme Court “only because Apple had barely satisfied that court’s requirement that an applicant articulate non-frivolous arguments,” said Epic Games’ SCOTUS reply brief Monday in support of its emergency application to Justice Elena Kagen to vacate the stay (see 2308070003).
A listing of recent Commerce Department antidumping and countervailing duty messages posted on CBP's website Aug. 8, 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.