The Supreme Court’s slim margin blocking Texas from enforcing a social media law surprised some court watchers. The action via a 5-4 emergency ruling Tuesday in NetChoice v. Paxton barred the law from being enforced while under consideration by the lower courts. Questions remain about where justices would stand in a case on the law’s merits, with Tuesday’s opinion shedding light only on three dissenting members’ views, said observers in interviews.
The Supreme Court’s slim margin blocking Texas from enforcing a social media law surprised some court watchers. The action via a 5-4 emergency ruling Tuesday in NetChoice v. Paxton barred the law from being enforced while under consideration by the lower courts. Questions remain about where justices would stand in a case on the law’s merits, with Tuesday’s opinion shedding light only on three dissenting members’ views, said observers in interviews.
Preliminary federal testing of possible incompatibility issues between airborne radar altimeter receivers in the 4200-4400 MHz band and 5G transmitters operating in the 3700-3980 MHz band isn't showing interference from the C-band 5G signals, Frank Sanders, senior technical fellow at NTIA's Institute for Telecommunication Sciences, told a connected aviation conference Wednesday in Reston, Virginia. He said if further testing does find interference, a technical fix appears to be available via filtering of the altimeters and/or the 5G transmitters.
Best Buy Health violates the Americans With Disabilities Act for its failure to design and operate a website that’s “fully accessible” to blind or visually impaired people who use screen-reading software, alleged a complaint Sunday in U.S. District Court in Manhattan that seeks class-action status. Legally blind Bronx resident Isabel Taveras tried in April to use Best Buy Health’s Lively.com website, which sells inexpensive cellphones and medical alert services to seniors, said her complaint, one of a dozen she filed simultaneously against a variety of merchants, all alleging the same ADA violations. She found the NonVisual Desktop Access screen reader she used was incapable of reading the links on the website’s promotional images or its item description links, said the complaint. “For screen-reading software to function, the information on a website must be capable of being rendered into text,” it said. If not, the blind or visually impaired user “is unable to access the same content available to sighted users,” it said. Taveras encountered “multiple access barriers” that denied her “full and equal access” to the goods and services offered on the website to “the general public,” it said. The deficiencies were still there through the date of the complaint's filing, it said.The complaint seeks preliminary and permanent injunctions ordering Best Buy “to take all the steps necessary to make its website fully comply" with the ADA's requirements, plus statutory and punitive money damages. It defines the potential class as including all blind and visually impaired people in the U.S. who have tried and failed to access the Lively.com goods and services that are available to the general public. Best Buy didn’t respond to requests for comment.
The Commerce Department published notices in the Federal Register June 1 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 released the preliminary results of its antidumping duty administrative review on carbon and alloy steel wire rod from South Korea (A-580-891), calculating a zero percent AD rate for POSCO and its affiliated company POSCO International Corporation. If the agency's finding is continued in the final results, importers of subject merchandise from POSCO entered between May 1, 2020, and April 30, 2021, will not be assessed AD duties, and future entries from POSCO would not be subject to an AD cash deposit requirement until further notice.
The Commerce Department and the International Trade Commission published the following Federal Register notices June 1 on AD/CVD proceedings:
Consumer intentions on buying new TV sets increased slightly in May compared with April, according to preliminary data reported Tuesday by the Conference Board. Analytics company Toluna canvassed 3,000 U.S. homes for the board through May 23, finding 11.6% plan to buy a new TV set in the next six months, up from 11.3% in April, 11% in March and 11.3% in May 2021, it said. Consumer confidence fell slightly in May, after rising modestly in April, due to “a perceived softening in labor market conditions,” said the board. Consumers don’t foresee the economy “picking up steam in the months ahead,” but they do expect labor market conditions to remain relatively strong, “which should continue to support confidence in the short run,” it said.
The tech industry and state officials were waiting Friday for a potential Supreme Court decision that could prove significant for social media content moderation practices. Various court decisions issued throughout the week raised questions about interpretation of Communications Decency Act Section 230 that some want the Supreme Court to settle.
The Commerce Department released the preliminary results of its antidumping duty administrative review on carbon and alloy steel cut-to-length plate from South Korea (A-580-887), calculating a 2.8% AD rate for POSCO (and its affiliated companies). If the agency's finding is continued in the final results, importers of subject merchandise from POSCO entered between May 1, 2020, and April 30, 2021, will be assessed antidumping duties at that rate.