Suspension of liquidation and antidumping duty cash deposit requirements are set to take effect May 30 for imports of frozen warmwater shrimp from Ecuador (A-331-805) and Indonesia (A-560-842), after the Commerce Department found dumping in preliminary determinations in its ongoing AD duty investigations.
Plaintiff Zhizhi Xu’s putative class action alleging that Reuters violated the California Invasion of Privacy Act (CIPA) is a “copycat” of at least six other complaints Xu’s counsel filed in the Southern District of New York. This, according to Reuters' memorandum of law Friday (docket 1:24-cv-02466) in U.S. District Court for Southern New York in Manhattan in support of its motion to dismiss. Xu alleges that three tracking pixels on the Reuters website collect visitors' IP addresses in violation of the CIPA (see 2404020024|). But Xu’s complaint is “the epitome of a nuisance suit,” the memorandum said, adding that Xu's counsel has filed similar suits outside New York during the last several months. “Flagrantly misinterpreting” a narrow California federal district court decision “far beyond its factual confines,” Xu seeks to upend internet commerce “by criminalizing the way the internet functions,” it said. Xu urges the court to hold Reuters liable under California’s penal code for thousands of dollars in statutory damages “to each and any California resident who voluntarily decides to click on Reuters.com," it said. That’s solely because Reuters allegedly collects visitors’ IP addresses, it said. But that data is “voluntarily and necessarily provided to Reuters” so that visitors’ browsers can properly display the website, it said. Not only did the California legislature not intend for the CIPA to be such a “blank check,” but a fair reading of the text can’t “bear such an interpretation either,” it said. Reuters asks for a dismissal of the class action with prejudice because it fails to include allegations demonstrating that Xu “has the necessary standing to bring his complaint” and his single-count class action “otherwise fails to state a claim as a matter of law.”
Despite representing in a Feb. 14 news release that it was positioned well financially for fiscal 2024, defendants Fastly and its CEO Todd Nightingale misled investors even as the company was “experiencing a significant deceleration in growth,” a securities fraud class action alleged Friday (docket 3:24-cv-03170) in U.S. District Court for Northern California.
WarnerMedia Direct shares personal data of HBO Max users in violation of the Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA), an April 4 complaint alleged (docket 4:24-cv-00043). The complaint was removed Friday from General Sessions Court of Coffee County Tennessee to U.S. District Court for Eastern Tennessee in Winchester.
Google unlawfully obtained information about individuals who applied for or checked the status of a disability parking placard on the California Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) website, a privacy class action Friday (docket 5:24-cv-03176) alleged in U.S. District Court for Northern California in San Jose.
Atlas Medical Management violated the Telephone Consumer Protection Act by “bombarding” consumers with unsolicited fax ads to promote its business, and did so without consumers' consent, alleged Jeffery Katz’s class action Thursday (docket 3:24-cv-03141) in U.S. District Court for Northern California. The TCPA was enacted to protect consumers from unsolicited and unwanted phone and fax solicitations “exactly like those alleged in this case,” said the complaint. Katz of San Francisco seeks an injunction requiring Atlas to cease all unsolicited fax ads, plus an award of statutory damages and treble damages for knowing and willful TCPA violations, it said.
Programmatic advertising firm Direct Digital Holdings and three of its executives made false or misleading statements and failed to disclose material facts about the financial impact of a “'cookie-less’ advertising environment,” alleged a securities fraud class action Thursday (docket 4:24-cv-01940) in U.S. District Court for Southern Texas in Houston.
The Commerce Department issued its final determinations in its countervailing duty investigations on paper shopping bags from China (C-570-153) and India (C-533-918). Suspension of liquidation is currently not in effect for entries on or after March 5, 2024, and Commerce will only require cash deposits of estimated CV duties on future entries if it issues a CVD order.
The Commerce Department issued its final determinations in the antidumping duty investigations on paper shopping bags from Cambodia (A-555-002), China (A-570-152), Colombia (A-301-805), India (A-533-917), Malaysia (A-557-825), Portugal (A-471-808), Taiwan (A-583-872) and Vietnam (A-552-836). Cash deposit rates set in this final determination take effect May 24, when the notices were published in the Federal Register.
A listing of recent Commerce Department antidumping and countervailing duty messages posted on CBP's website May 23, 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.