Following oral argument over a question of whether a questionnaire submitted in lieu of verification constitutes verification in an antidumping matter, both the plaintiffs, led by Ellwod City Forge Co., and the defendant-intervenors, led by Metalcam, submitted follow-up briefs. Metalcam told the Court of International Trade that the Commerce Department acted within its discretion to issue the questionnaire instead of on-site verification. Meanwhile, Ellwood responded to the oral argument by arguing that it exhausted administrative remedies on this question, but that even if it did not, this should not bar consideration of the legal claims (Ellwood City Forge Company v. United States, CIT #21-00073).
The Florida House voted 103-8 to pass a comprehensive privacy bill Wednesday with a private right of action (PRA). HB-9 sponsor Rep. Fiona McFarland (R) “stood strong against an onslaught of special interest opposition to do what is right for the people of Florida,” said Speaker Chris Sprowls (R) at the livestreamed floor session. The House bill's fate is uncertain in the Senate, which opposed including a PRA in the privacy bill that passed the House last year.
The Florida House voted 103-8 to pass a comprehensive privacy bill Wednesday with a private right of action (PRA). HB-9 sponsor Rep. Fiona McFarland (R) “stood strong against an onslaught of special interest opposition to do what is right for the people of Florida,” said Speaker Chris Sprowls (R) at the livestreamed floor session. The House bill's fate is uncertain in the Senate, which opposed including a PRA in the privacy bill that passed the House last year.
Media companies and organizations, including Google, DirecTV and the NAB, are taking action against Russian-sponsored content in reaction to the invasion of Ukraine. “The First Amendment protects freedom of speech; however, it does not prevent private actors from exercising sound, moral judgment,” said NAB CEO Curtis LeGeyt in a statement Tuesday, asking all broadcasters to cease airing “state-sponsored programming with ties to the Russian government or its agents.”
Florida House lawmakers teed up a possible Wednesday vote on comprehensive privacy legislation. Tuesday, during livestreamed floor debate, members adopted by voice an amendment by HB-9 sponsor Rep. Fiona McFarland (R) while rejecting a Democratic attempt to narrow the bill’s scope and add a right to cure to its proposed private right of action.
Florida House lawmakers teed up a possible Wednesday vote on comprehensive privacy legislation. Tuesday, during livestreamed floor debate, members adopted by voice an amendment by HB-9 sponsor Rep. Fiona McFarland (R) while rejecting a Democratic attempt to narrow the bill’s scope and add a right to cure to its proposed private right of action.
Media companies and organizations, including Google, DirecTV and the NAB, are taking action against Russian-sponsored content in reaction to the invasion of Ukraine. “The First Amendment protects freedom of speech; however, it does not prevent private actors from exercising sound, moral judgment,” said NAB CEO Curtis LeGeyt in a statement Tuesday, asking all broadcasters to cease airing “state-sponsored programming with ties to the Russian government or its agents.”
House members are pushing competing kids' privacy bills in an attempt to keep pace with bipartisan efforts in the Senate (see 2202280060). But talks in the lower chamber have been fragmented, House Commerce Committee members told us Tuesday at a House Consumer Protection Subcommittee hearing.
The House Commerce Committee is reviewing a bipartisan Senate proposal on children’s privacy, but Democrats see their privacy bill language as the proper base text for comprehensive legislation, said Syd Terry, chief of staff for House Consumer Protection Subcommittee Chairwoman Jan Schakowsky, D-Ill.
State courts should handle Altice’s challenge of New Jersey’s cable TV pro-rating law, the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said in a Thursday opinion. The 3rd Circuit vacated a lower court’s decision that the prorating rules are federally preempted, saying it disagreed with that court's opinion that the Younger abstention doctrine didn’t apply. The appeals court remanded for the court to dismiss the amended complaint. Younger tells federal courts to abstain from hearing cases involving federal issues that are before state courts. “The proceeding here implicates important state interests,” and “Altice has an adequate opportunity to raise its federal claims in the state proceeding,” wrote Judge Patty Shwartz for the panel that also included Judges Brooks Smith and Thomas Hardiman. Lacking a criminal analog isn’t a prerequisite to abstention, the court said: Even if it were, state law criminalizes some violations of the Cable Act. “The BPU’s civil enforcement proceeding was quasi-criminal in nature and, thus, the type of proceeding to which Younger applies.” The court heard argument last month (see 2201270042).