Lawmakers must hold companies liable when their artificial intelligence systems cause harm and should consider major updates to Section 230, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Dick Durbin, D-Ill., told NTIA in comments released last week.
The Tariff Act's customs penalty statute, and not the False Claims Act, governs customs penalties for fraud, gross negligence and negligence, and is the exclusive means to recover liquidated antidumping duties, appellant Sigma told the U.S. Court of Appealsfor the 9th Circuit in a June 12 brief. Responding to the court's order for supplemental briefing on the two laws, Sigma said 19 U.S.C. 1592 is more specific than the False Claims Act and has a "detailed and comprehensive legal regime," including specific provisions addressing customs fraud (Island Industries v. Sigma, 9th Cir. # 22-55063).
The Texas Court of Appeals for the 6th Appellate District in Texarkana denied Meta’s mandamus petition to vacate a lower court’s denial of its motion to disqualify lead outside counsel for the state of Texas, Zina Bash of Keller Postman, in a lawsuit alleging Meta violated the Texas Capture or Use of Biometric Identifier Act, said its memorandum opinion Wednesday (docket 06-23-00045-CV). The trial court was “well within” its discretion to deny Meta’s disqualification motion, it said. Meta filed the motion April 10, based on Bash’s work at Meta as a summer intern in 2012. Meta claimed Bash, though just an intern, had a law degree and was working in Meta’s legal department, making her a lawyer for Meta at a time when the legal department was especially focused on tag suggestions and the privacy policies surrounding them. Meta claimed Bash is “adverse” to Meta and her 2012 work was “substantially related” to the instant privacy case she was trying for the state. Texas responded by arguing Meta waived the issue by waiting so late in the case to raise it, and that it had knowledge all along of what Bash had done for Meta and possession of documents about that work.
The Senate Judiciary Committee passed legislation for a second time Thursday that would allow news outlets to negotiate with the tech industry for compensation when platforms host news content (see 2306140042). Chairman Dick Durbin, D-Ill., told us a potential floor vote is a “long way” off, and ranking member Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., said during the hearing he expects the bill will ultimately “go nowhere.”
The reaction has been muted to FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel's speech Wednesday launching a Privacy and Data Protection Task Force and urging a more aggressive approach by the agency on data privacy (see 2306140075). But some observers questioned how far the FCC can go under its legal authority to regulate privacy. Rosenworcel said Wednesday sections 222 and 631 of the Communication Act provide the grounding for FCC action. Congress rejected ISP privacy rules approved under former Chairman Tom Wheeler, through a Congressional Review Act resolution (see 1704040059).
The U.S. Supreme Court's recent decision in SEC v. Cochran could usher in the end of the agency's in-house court for most cases, including Foreign Corrupt Practices Act matters, according to Richard Cassin, founder of the FCPA blog. Should this happen, Cassin said in a June 12 post, it would be hard to imagine how the SEC could maintain its current level of enforcement activity.
The World Trade Organization is steadily headed towards irrelevancy to global trade and is facing a "long, slow sunset," said Peter Harrell, former senior director for international economics and competitiveness at the White House, during remarks at the Georgetown International Trade Update on June 13.
The U.S. Supreme Court's recent decision in SEC v. Cochran could usher in the end of the agency's in-house court for most cases, including Foreign Corrupt Practices Act matters, according to Richard Cassin, founder of the FCPA blog. Should this happen, Cassin said in a June 12 post, it would be hard to imagine how the SEC could maintain its current level of enforcement activity.
The World Trade Organization is steadily headed towards irrelevancy to global trade and is facing a "long, slow sunset," said Peter Harrell, former senior director for international economics and competitiveness at the White House, during remarks at the Georgetown International Trade Update on June 13.
The Federal Maritime Commission this week released a revised version of its proposed rule on unreasonable carrier conduct to amend and add to a rulemaking that was widely criticized by shippers and lawmakers last year (see 2301250032, 2211090026 and 2210280051). The new supplemental proposed rule offers new definitions, clarifications, edits and additions that the FMC hopes will allow it to better implement a congressional mandate to address ocean carriers that refuse vessel space to shippers.