After they were unable to resolve their CapCut videoediting app privacy claims against TikTok and ByteDance in mediation (see 2401120043), the plaintiffs topped off their amended complaint with five additional causes of action, said their complaint Thursday (docket 1:23-cv-04953) in U.S. District Court for Northern Illinois in Chicago.
Indonesian mattress exporter PT Ecos Jaya Indonesia and its affiliate PT Grantec Jaya Indonesia launched a challenge at the Court of International Trade against the Commerce Department's calculation of the exporter's constructed value and constructed export profit and selling expense ratios. The company objected to Commerce's use of financial data from Malaysian mattress maker Masterfoam Industries and Indian mattress conglomerate Kurlon Enterprise as surrogate sources (PT Ecos Jaya Indonesia v. United States, CIT # 24-00001).
The Commerce Department on Feb. 5 released the preliminary results of its antidumping and countervailing duty administrative reviews on softwood lumber products from Canada (A-122-857/C-122-858). In the final results of this review, Commerce will set AD and CVD assessment rates for subject merchandise for the companies under review entered Jan. 1, 2022, through Dec. 31, 2022.
U.S. Magistrate Judge Kyle Dudek for Middle Florida in Fort Myers scheduled a preliminary pretrial videoconference for Feb. 20 at 10 a.m. in the fraud case brought by Basket Entertainment against its former vice president, John Cannata, said a text-only docket entry Thursday (docket 2:23-cv-01028). The parties’ joint case management report is due Feb. 20, it said. Basket, a developer of online games and mobile apps for the Roblox platform, hired Cannata in July and added him to its board to identify acquisition targets to grow its user base, but Basket alleges that Cannata almost immediately “engaged in an outrageous campaign of double-dealing” (see 2311140004). It contends that Cannata went behind the company’s back and acquired ownership interests in at least two online games for himself “without ever presenting them as opportunities” to his employer.
A listing of recent Commerce Department antidumping and countervailing duty messages posted on CBP's website Feb. 2, 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 Feb. 1, 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 announced the opportunity to request administrative reviews by Feb. 29 for producers and exporters subject to 43 antidumping duty orders and 15 countervailing duty orders with anniversary dates in February.
Whitepages designed its terms of service “in an oppressive and unscrupulous manner” to avoid liability for its “ongoing scheme” to “deceive consumers,” alleged a complaint Friday (docket 2:24-cv-00121) in U.S. District Court for Western Washington in Seattle. Plaintiff Rosa Lee Klaneski, of Farmington, Connecticut, entered into a contract with Whitepages “several years” prior to the complaint, under which she paid $4.99 monthly, now $5.99 per month, for a “premium membership” that enabled ad-free searches for individuals throughout the U.S., the complaint said. As part of her “personal lookups,” Whitepages sent unsolicited emails to her inbox informing her of additional data relevant to individuals she was searching, “or who were related somehow to the individuals she was searching," it said. One email she received said a social acquaintance of hers, known to have “only the highest of morals and scruples” now had a criminal record as part of her public record, the complaint said. Enticed by the subject line, “New Criminal Record Update,” Klaneski was solicited in the email to buy a background report revealing the advertised criminal record for $19.99, plus taxes and fees. Though the information was accurate, the “'new criminal record was actually a traffic citation from 2006” for illegal display of a handicapped plate in a parked vehicle, “a non-moving vehicular violation whose criminality and newness was suspect,” the complaint said. Klaneski sued Whitepages in her local Connecticut small claims court over “what she believed to be a garden variety dispute over the merchantability of virtual goods alleging unfair trade practices but not a federal question,” she said. The defendant filed a motion to dismiss, saying what it called “new information” was new to its database. Such an answer “offends all notions of fair play,” said Klaneski, who alleged in her amended complaint in that action a violation of the Can-Spam Act. From April 20 to Nov. 23, Whitepages emailed Klaneski, “no fewer than 800 times” about new records, with only slight relevance and “suspect” connection to her, said the complaint. Whitepages sells “unmerchantable data through misleading spam emails and it avoids liability through an unconscionable terms of service that limits the redressability of grievances,” the complaint said. Klaneski 's claims include violation of the Can-Spam Act and Washington’s Consumer Protection Act, breach of contract, tortious interference with business expectancies and unjust enrichment. She seeks compensatory, statutory and punitive damages, pre-judgment interest, an order of restitution, injunctive relief and attorneys’ fees.
A listing of recent Commerce Department antidumping and countervailing duty messages posted on CBP's website Jan. 31, 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 and the International Trade Commission began five-year sunset reviews of the antidumping and countervailing duty orders on crystalline silicon photovoltaic cells and modules from China (A-570-979/C-570-980); large diameter welded pipe from China (A-570-077/C-570-078), India (A-533-881/C-533-882), South Korea (A-580-897/C-580-898) and Turkey (A-489-833/C-489-834); and plastic decorative ribbons from China (A-570-075/C-570-076). It also will consider revoking the AD orders on large diameter welded pipe from Canada (A-122-863) and Greece (A-484-803), and on sodium hexametaphosphate from China (A-570-908), Commerce said in a notice released Jan. 31.