A federal court paused litigation Wednesday in a case involving the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s demand for state data on Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) recipients.
LinkedIn sued web-scraping company ProAPIs and its principal, Rehmat Alam, on Thursday for its alleged unauthorized scraping of member profiles, some of which was done by fake accounts.
The Commerce Department issued its final determinations in its countervailing duty investigations on thermoformed molded fiber products from China (C-570-183) and Vietnam (C-552-846), after finding countervailable subsidization of producers and exporters in the two countries in the preliminary determinations of its CVD investigations.
Plaintiffs who sued Microsoft for tracking, recording and selling of users’ internet activity voluntarily dismissed their complaint Thursday. They gave no reason for their action.
A federal district court in California granted Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro’s (D) request to be included in a temporary restraining order (TRO) against the U.S. Department of Agriculture to stop it from demanding the state-held sensitive, personally identifiable information (PII) of millions of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) recipients.
The Trump administration’s creation of large government databases consolidating the sensitive personal information of millions of Americans in an attempt to purge voter rolls is unlawful, according to a class-action lawsuit filed Tuesday by the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC), League of Women Voters and others.
The Commerce Department began administrative reviews for certain firms subject to antidumping and countervailing duty orders with August anniversary dates. Producers and exporters subject to any of these administrative reviews on China or Vietnam must submit their separate rate certifications or applications on or about Oct. 9 to avoid being assigned high China-wide or Vietnam-wide rates.
The Commerce Department issued its final determination in its countervailing duty investigation on hexamethylenetetramine (hexamine) from India (C-533-933). Suspension of liquidation is currently not in effect for entries on or after July 5, 2025, and Commerce will require cash deposits of estimated CVD on future entries only if it issues a CVD order.
A federal appeals court should affirm a lower court’s decision and block Florida’s social media ban on children because it violates the First Amendment, the American Civil Liberties Union and consumer groups said in a filing Friday, siding with the tech industry (see 2509120040). The groups also highlighted privacy concerns related to age verification (docket 25-11881).
A second amended class-action complaint about AT&T ownership of legacy telecom cables laden with toxic lead (see 2311270004) still hasn't alleged enough facts to show that the company knowingly acted wrongly or with an intent to deceive, according to the company. In a motion to dismiss filed with the U.S. District Court for Northern Texas (docket 3:24-cv-01196), AT&T said the plaintiffs ignore the fact that more than two years after Wall Street Journal articles about the old telecom infrastructure and its environmental risks, which prompted the litigation, "none of those purported risks has come to fruition." The plaintiffs also haven't adequately pleaded actionable falsity for any alleged misstatement or omission, AT&T added.