Yauheni Dauzhanok and Aesmart deliberately facilitated the sale and distribution of counterfeit and fraudulent products on Amazon, Amazon's fraud complaint alleged Tuesday (docket 2:24-cv-00825) in U.S. District Court for Western Washington in Seattle.
The Commerce Department issued notices in the Federal Register on its recently initiated antidumping and countervailing duty investigations on disposable aluminum containers, pans, trays, and lids from China (A-570-170/C-570-171). The CVD investigation covers entries Jan. 1 - Dec. 31, 2023. The AD investigation covers entries Oct. 1, 2023 - March 31, 2024.
The Commerce Department began administrative reviews for certain firms subject to antidumping and countervailing duty orders with April anniversary dates. Producers and exporters subject to any of these administrative reviews on China or Vietnam must submit their separate rate certifications or applications by July 12 to avoid being assigned high China-wide or Vietnam-wide rates.
Brinker International inundates consumers’ cellphones with telemarketing text-message solicitations, and contacts numbers listed on the national and Massachusetts do not call registries, Paul Jones’ Telephone Consumer Protection Act complaint May 3 in Hampden County Superior Court alleged. It was removed Friday (docket 3:24-cv-30078) to U.S. District Court for Massachusetts in Springfield. Brinker, parent company of Chili's Grill & Bar, Romano's Macaroni Grill and Maggiano's Little Italy, denies Jones’ claims, and denies he “is entitled to any relief,” its notice of removal said. The plaintiff also alleges violations of the Massachusetts Telemarketing Solicitation Act. Brinker’s strategies for generating new business involve using an automatic telephone dialing system to send text-message solicitations without the written express consent of the called parties, the complaint said. Jones pays for three cellphone lines under a T-Mobile family plan, and he alleges the defendant texted all three lines well after the numbers were listed on the federal and state DNC registries. Brinker’s conduct was unfair, “immoral, unethical, oppressive and unscrupulous,” the complaint said. The plaintiff “wasted several weeks” researching, locating and hiring an attorney to bring his TCPA action to hold Brinker and its agents “accountable for their actions,” it added.
A listing of recent Commerce Department antidumping and countervailing duty messages posted on CBP's website June 10, 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.
Public sector software company Tyler Technologies maintained and used the plaintiff's and class members’ personally identifiable information (PII) in a “reckless manner,” a negligence complaint filed Thursday (docket 2:24-cv-00425) in U.S. District Court for Eastern Texas in Marshall alleged.
A listing of recent Commerce Department antidumping and countervailing duty messages posted on CBP's website June 6, 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.
Major textbook publishers including Cengage Learning, Macmillan Learning, Elsevier and McGraw Hill are accusing Google of either direct copyright infringement, or contributory and vicarious infringement, plus violations of New York General Business Law, said their complaint Wednesday (docket 1:24-cv-04274) in U.S. District Court for Southern New York in Manhattan.
A listing of recent Commerce Department antidumping and countervailing duty messages posted on CBP's website June 5, 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 on June 5 announced a large decrease in antidumping duty cash deposit rates in effect for aluminum extrusions from Turkey (A-489-850), amending its preliminary determination in an ongoing AD investigation to correct calculation errors in the original. Effective May 7, the date that liquidation was suspended and AD cash deposit rates first took effect under the preliminary determination, the unadjusted AD rate for Erdoganlar falls from 85.14% to 10.11%, and the AD rate for Sistem falls from 45.41% to 19.86%. The unadjusted all-others rate consequently falls from 73.43% to 12.98%, and Commerce is also lowering the penalty rate assigned to non-cooperative companies from 605.72% to 48.43% (37.26% when adjusted for cash deposit purposes). The new rates are as follows: