Suspension of liquidation and antidumping and countervailing duty cash deposit requirements took effect June 28 for imports of ferrosilicon from Russia (A-821-838/C-821-839), after the Commerce Department made affirmative preliminary determinations in its ongoing AD/CVD investigations.
A Mississippi social media law requiring age verification may not be enforced while litigation continues, the U.S. District Court for Southern Mississippi decided Monday. The state law requiring parental consent for minors younger than 18 (HB-1126) was to take effect that day. But the court said NetChoice showed a high likelihood of success in its complaint (see 2406070059) against Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch (R).
CDK Global, a software provider for North American car dealerships, failed to take the necessary steps to protect Coby Hester’s and class members’ personally identifiable information (PII), Hester's negligence class action alleged Thursday (docket 1:24-cv-05377) in U.S. District Court for Northern Illinois. CDK was hired to protect PII and is responsible for the software behind most major car dealerships in North America, the complaint said, citing a June 20 article in Enterprise Management 360 about a June 18 ransomware attack at CDK that reportedly reached 15,000 car dealerships. CDK acknowledged the breach on June 19 when it told car dealers it was investigating a “cyber incident.” The company “shut down most" systems and was “diligently trying to get everything up and running as quickly as possible,” the article said. CDK experienced a second cyber incident on June 19 and told dealers it was “again proactively shutting down most of our systems.” An employee of Northwest Dodge, Hester provided CDK with his PII, including name, address, Social Security number, driver’s license, and financial details, the complaint alleged. The Houston plaintiff is careful about sharing his PII and storing documents containing his PII in a safe, secure location, it added. Hester asserts claims of negligence and negligence per se, breach of third-party beneficiary contract and fiduciary duty and unjust enrichment.
Real estate company Colony Ridge Development routinely sends ad or marketing text messages to residential phone numbers listed with the national do not call registry without “the prior express invitation or permission required” by the Telephone Consumer Protection Act, alleged a class action Wednesday (docket 4:24-cv-02418) in U.S. District Court for Southern Texas in Houston. Plaintiff Eric Geaslin listed his cellphone number with the national DNC registry in December 2019, yet he received multiple text messages from Colony beginning in late 2022 and continuing through to the present, said the complaint. The Spanish-language text messages advertised properties for sale, but the Plantersville, Texas, resident didn’t recognize the sender, nor does he speak or read Spanish, it said. In light of allegations made by government regulators such as the Consumer Finance Protection Bureau, Colony engages in a predatory business model through which it seeks to solicit Hispanic consumers to purchase land or property under unfavorable financial conditions, said the complaint. Geaslin estimates he received at least 20 ad or telemarketing text messages from Colony on his cellphone between 2022 and the present, it said. Geaslin suffered actual harm as a result of the text messages “in that he suffered an invasion of privacy, an intrusion into his life, and a private nuisance,” it said.
The parties in a Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA) lawsuit against MLB Advanced Media (MLBAV) over ad tracking technology are seeking an extension to further extend the deadline for MLBAM’s response to plaintiff Bryan Henry’s complaint, said their proposed joint stipulation and order Wednesday (docket 1:24-cv-01446) in U.S. District Court for Southern New York in Manhattan. Henry’s Feb. 26 class action suit alleges MLB.tv collects and shares website and app users’ personal information with its third-party business partners via cookies, software development kits and tracking pixels without obtaining their consent. The parties filed a joint motion April 29 to stay all deadlines and extend MLBAV’s deadline to answer Henry’s complaint for 60 days pending mediation; the court granted the motion to stay and extended the deadline for a response to Tuesday. The parties scheduled a mediation conference for July 23, said the stipulation, and they agreed to further extend the deadline for a response to Aug. 22 to facilitate the mediation, prevent unnecessary expenses and serve the interest of judicial economy in the event they reach a settlement, said the filing.
A listing of recent Commerce Department antidumping and countervailing duty messages posted on CBP's website June 26, 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.
A listing of recent Commerce Department antidumping and countervailing duty messages posted on CBP's website June 25, 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.
A marketing and real estate firm in Mesa, Arizona, “routinely violates” the Telephone Consumer Protection Act by delivering ads or telemarketing text messages to residential or cellphone numbers listed on the national do not call registry, and does so “without the prior express invitation or permission required by the TCPA,” alleged Mandi Potter’s class action Friday (docket 4:24-cv-00866) in U.S. District Court for Eastern Missouri. American House Partners appears to operate a telemarketing enterprise, “the likes of which the TCPA has largely done away with,” said the Imperial, Missouri, resident’s complaint. It operates in “brazen disregard” of the TCPA’s restrictions, it said. The company openly touts that it engages in ongoing “cold call” telemarketing and high pressure sales tactics to acquire consumers’ homes "for massive discounts on their fair market value," it said. It then promptly flips those homes to other investors “for substantial profits by way of assignment contracts,” it said. Potter personally listed her cellphone number with the DNC registry in 2018, “and has maintained that registration through the present date,” it said. She nevertheless began receiving numerous text messages in March from a “rotating series of phone numbers,” seeking to solicit her to use American House Partners in the sale of her home, it said. Potter didn’t give the defendant prior express written consent to send text messages to her cellphone number, said the complaint. The plaintiff “suffered actual harm as a result of the text messages at issue in that she suffered an invasion of privacy, an intrusion into her life, and a private nuisance,” it said. She suffered additional harm “due to her frustration and difficulty in identifying the entity and persons responsible” for the unwanted text messages, it said. American House Partners knew, or should have known, that Potter registered her cellphone number with the DNC registry, it said.
A listing of recent Commerce Department antidumping and countervailing duty messages posted on CBP's website June 24, 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.
Cloud communications platform company Twilio intercepts consumers’ personally identifiable information (PII) and protected health information (PHI), “and related confidential information” without their consent, alleged a privacy class action Friday (docket 4:24-cv-03741) in U.S. District Court for Northern California in Oakland.