An Ohio court can and should call Google Search a common carrier, the state argued Friday. In a separate opposition brief, Google protested that it’s nothing like a common carrier: "Google is not a 'dumb pipe' or 'mere conduit.' The Ohio Chamber of Commerce supported the company, arguing in a Thursday amicus brief that Ohio’s attempt to regulate the search company would be “anti-business.”
A listing of recent Commerce Department antidumping and countervailing duty messages posted on CBP's website Feb. 22, 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 Tampa doctor’s T-Mobile account was improperly transferred to another individual who used the doctor's identity to attempt to buy fraudulent prescriptions of controlled substances, tried to transfer $100,000 from her retirement account and obtained money via a financial services platform, alleged Pina Panchal's negligence complaint Wednesday (docket 8:24-cv-00456) in U.S. District Court for Middle Florida in Tampa.
A listing of recent Commerce Department antidumping and countervailing duty messages posted on CBP's website Feb. 21, 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 issued a notice in the Federal Register on its recently initiated countervailing duty investigations on paper plates from China and Vietnam (C-570-165, C-552-840), and is set to publish a notice in the coming days on its antidumping duty investigations on paper plates from China, Thailand and Vietnam (A-570-164, A-549-849, A-552-839). The CVD investigations on China and Vietnam and the AD investigation on Thailand cover entries for the calendar year 2023. The AD investigations on China and Vietnam cover entries made July 1, 2023, through Dec. 31, 2023.
A listing of recent Commerce Department antidumping and countervailing duty messages posted on CBP's website Feb. 20, 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 loyalty of millions of children has helped turn online gaming platform Roblox into "a wild success,” but the platform “systematically takes advantage" of kids and exposes them "to unsafe, unregulated, and grotesque virtual experiences,” alleged a class action Friday (docket 3:24-cv-00963) in U.S. District Court for Northern California in San Francisco.
U.S. District Judge Gary Klausner for Central California in Los Angeles ordered plaintiff “Jane Doe” to show cause why she should be permitted to proceed by pseudonym in a lawsuit against PHE, owner of adult products website Adam & Eve, said a Wednesday filing (docket 2:24-cv-01065). Doe’s Jan. 3 privacy complaint in Los Angeles County Superior Court, removed Feb. 7 to federal court, alleges PHE caused Google to learn the contents of her private and protected sexual information without notifying her and without her consent, in violation of the California Invasion of Privacy Act. Doe filed a class action vs. PHE on Sept. 25, and the court ordered her to show cause then, too, why she should be permitted to proceed by pseudonym, said the order. Soon after, Doe filed a notice of voluntary dismissal and refiled her case in state court, adding Google as a defendant; the action was removed this month. Under Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, a plaintiff must list her real name in the complaint, the order said. The rules “serve the purpose of promoting the public’s right to open courts and the right of private individuals to confront their accusers,” Klausner said. He added: “The rule that a plaintiff must use her real name is not absolute” and that in limited circumstances, a plaintiff may use a pseudonym “with the court’s permission.” Doe has not sought the court’s permission, said the order.
A listing of recent Commerce Department antidumping and countervailing duty messages posted on CBP's website Feb. 16, 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.
Online dating company Match Group uses “powerful technologies and hidden algorithms” to design its websites with “addictive, game-like design features” that “lock users into a perpetual pay-to-play loop,” alleged six plaintiffs in a class action Wednesday (docket 3:24-cv-00888) in U.S. District Court for Northern California in San Francisco.