Importer Vecoplan on June 17 dismissed one of its customs cases at the Court of International Trade regarding the classification of its grinding machines (Vecoplan v. United States, CIT # 20-00106).
The Court of International Trade dismissed importer Greentech Energy Solutions' challenge to antidumping and countervailing duties on Chinese solar cells to its Vietnamese solar cell entries for lack of subject-matter jurisdiction under Section 1581(i), the court's "residual" jurisdiction.
SiriusXM falsely advertises its music plans at lower prices than it charges by embedding its subscribers’ monthly bills with an inconspicuous 21.4% “U.S. music royalty fee,” alleged four Oregon residents in an Unlawful Trade Practices Act class action Friday (docket 3:24-cv-00955) in U.S. District Court for Oregon in Portland. Kara Kirkpatrick and Gillian Maxfield of Portland, Anna DeMarco of Marcola and Cody Michael of Salem filed the suit. SiriusXM intentionally doesn’t disclose the fee to its subscribers, nor does it mention the fee in its advertising, “including in the fine print,” said the complaint. Once consumers have been lured to sign up, SiriusXM “prevents them from learning about its scheme by never thereafter sending them monthly or ongoing billing notices or invoices,” it said. All the while, SiriusXM “silently and automatically renews their subscriptions month after month and year after year,” it said. The complaint is the latest of several filed throughout the U.S. challenging SiriusXM’s pricing practices, including at least one case, Stevenson et al v. SiriusXM (docket 23-4018), that has reached the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals (see 2312080023).
A plaintiff and glycine importer filed a brief June 13 at the Court of International Trade supporting inclusion into its case’s record a prior August 2033 scope ruling application, made by the plaintiff and denied by the Commerce Department, that the plaintiff said provided important context for its overall case (Deer Park Glycine v. U.S., CIT # 24-00016).
The Court of International Trade dismissed importer Greentech Energy Solutions' challenge to antidumping and countervailing duties on Chinese solar cells to its Vietnamese solar cell entries for lack of subject-matter jurisdiction under Section 1581(i), the court's "residual" jurisdiction.
An exporter of vehicle side bars said the U.S. is wrongly relying on a U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit patent case to convince the trade court to rule against that exporter (Keystone Automotive Operations v. U.S., CIT # 21-00215).
Online education platform company 2U and three executives made materially false and misleading statements and failed to disclose material adverse facts about business operations from February 2022 to February 2024, alleged a Securities Exchange Act class action (docket 8:24-cv-01723) Thursday in U.S. District Court for Maryland in Greenbelt.
Donald Friend sued Google in U.S. District Court for Northern California, seeking to halt its “complex and misleading system and practices” involving businesses advertised on Google Maps, said his Thursday complaint (docket 5:24-cv-03571) in the San Jose court.
Exporter Hyundai Steel continued to challenge the Commerce Department's finding that the South Korean government's cap-and-trade carbon emissions program was de jure specific, in comments on the agency's remand results filed at the Court of International Trade on June 13 (Hyundai Steel Co. v. United States, CIT # 22-00029).
The following lawsuit was recently filed at the Court of International Trade: