Five newly announced FTC enforcement actions against illegal robocalls and telemarketing fraud marked Tuesday’s debut of Operation Stop Scam Calls, a nationwide “enforcement sweep” involving more than 100 federal and state agencies, including DOJ, the FCC and the attorneys general of all 50 states, plus the District of Columbia.
Proposed changes by the Commerce Department to its antidumping and countervailing duty regulations were met with a diverse array of responses from governments, producers, importers, lawyers and others, with particular focus on the agency's proposal to consider intellectual property, human rights and environmental protections in AD/CVD proceedings and proposed changes that would allow particular market situation adjustments to the sales-below-cost test.
Plaintiff Angela Haynie agreed to consolidate her fraud class action against Onix Group in a response (docket 2:23-cv-02689) to court orders in support of plaintiff Eric Meyers, Donald Owens and Aida Wimbush’s Wednesday motion (see 2307130062) to consolidate the related actions, appoint interim co-lead counsel and set a schedule for filing a consolidated amended complaint in U.S. District Court for Eastern Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. The fraud complaints against Onix allege the company failed to secure and safeguard about 320,000 individuals’ personally identifiable information and personal health information during a March data breach in its healthcare business. Haynie claims unfair trade practices and consumer protection law violations, negligence and unjust enrichment. She supports the appointment of Benjamin Johns of Shub & Johns and Gary Klinger of Milberg Coleman as interim co-lead class counsel.
The following lawsuits were filed at the Court of International Trade during the week of July 10-16:
The following lawsuits were recently filed at the Court of International Trade:
The following lawsuit was recently filed at the Court of International Trade:
US, Conservation Groups File for Stay in Suit on NOAA Decision Pending NMFS NZ Comparability Finding
Conservation groups Sea Shepherd New Zealand and Sea Shepherd Conservation Society filed a joint motion for stay of litigation with the government in a case challenging the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's 2020 findings that New Zealand's standards for its West Coast North Island inshore trawl and set net fisheries were comparable with U.S. regulations (Sea Shepherd New Zealand, et al. v. United States, CIT # 20-00112).
U.S. District Court Judge Brantley Starr granted EDN Global’s motion for consideration to file a first amended complaint (FAC) in its breach of contract lawsuit (docket 3:23-cv-00355) against AT&T, said his Tuesday order in U.S. District Court for Northern Texas in Dallas. Plaintiffs articulated a non-conclusory reason it’s necessary -- “to base the complaint on Texas law” -- Starr’s order said. In a separate order, he found "moot" AT&T’s motion to dismiss for failure to state a claim.
The Court of International Trade in a July 13 opinion dismissed a lawsuit from PrimeSource Building Products against President Donald Trump's move to expand Section 232 national security tariffs onto steel and aluminum "derivative" products pursuant to the mandate issued by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.
The Court of International Trade in a July 12 opinion upheld the Commerce Department's decision on voluntary remand to slash from 82.05% to 41.03% the antidumping duty rate for the separate rate respondents in the 2016-17 review on diamond sawblades from China. The case had been stayed pending the resolution of a case on the previous administrative review, Bosun Tools Co. v. U.S., in which the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed Commerce's move to similarly cut the separate rate.