Paul Bettencourt, trade attorney at Akin Gump, has been promoted to counsel, he announced on LinkedIn. Bettencourt started at Akin as a law clerk in August 2020 and has worked at the firm as an associate since October 2020. Prior to receiving his law degree, Bettencourt worked as a policy analyst at the National Federation of Independent Business from 2017 to 2019.
The following lawsuits were filed recently at the Court of International Trade:
Perkins Coie offered its initial defense in a malpractice suit against the firm relating to its representation of exporter Oman Fasteners in various antidumping duty and countervailing duty proceedings.
The Commerce Department erred in determining that U.S. seafood seller Luscious Seafood didn't make a "bona fide" sale of the domestic like product as part of an antidumping duty review on Vietnamese frozen fish fillets, the Court of International Trade held in a decision made public Jan. 6.
The following lawsuits were filed recently at the Court of International Trade:
The Court of International Trade on Jan. 6 granted importer Second Nature Designs' motion for a four-month extension to complete discovery in a customs case involving various different categories of decorative plant parts. Judge Lisa Wang ordered that fact discovery shall be completed by May 8 and that any motions regarding the "sufficiency of discovery" shall be filed by June 8 (Second Nature Designs v. United States, CIT # 17-00271).
A recent antidumping petition on fresh winter strawberries from Mexico highlights a rarely used provision of the antidumping statute that allows the International Trade Commission to narrow the injury analysis to only a particular region in the U.S. Trade lawyers told us that there's clear statutory authority for a regional injury petition, but that the analysis may require a more pervasive showing of injury throughout the affected industry than an ordinary, nationwide injury analysis.
The following lawsuits were filed recently at the Court of International Trade:
The Court of International Trade on Jan. 5 granted stipulated judgments in a trio of cases from importer Jing Mei Automotive (USA) regarding the company's entries of rear drive axle covers and front axle covers (Jing Mei Automotive (USA) v. United States, CIT #s 14-00281, 14-00060, 14-00003).
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit last week denied U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit Judge Pauline Newman's petition for rehearing en banc of the D.C. Circuit's decision to reject the judge's lawsuit against her colleagues' investigation into her fitness to continue serving on the bench (Hon. Pauline Newman v. Hon. Kimberly Moore, D.C. Cir. # 23-01334).