The U.S. Chamber of Commerce supports T-Mobile’s Nov. 28 motion to certify the court’s Nov. 2 denial of T-Mobile’s motion to dismiss the T-Mobile/Sprint antitrust class action for interlocutory appeal to the 7th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals (see 2311290042), said the Chamber’s amicus brief Wednesday (docket 1:22-cv-03189) in U.S. District Court for Northern Illinois in Chicago.
If a bill just introduced becomes law, importers of fossil fuels, refined petroleum products, petrochemicals, fertilizer, hydrogen, adipic acid, cement, iron and steel, aluminum, glass, pulp, paper, lime and gypsum products and ethanol would have to pay a duty at the border based on the carbon intensity of either the industry in the home country, the product, if a specific petition was made, or an economywide carbon intensity measure, if no reliable data is available by industry.
Future automated decision-making rules in California could have national impact on communications and internet companies, among many other industries, privacy experts said in interviews last week. The California Privacy Protection Agency board plans a Friday meeting to discuss an early proposal that the CPPA released last week. The proceeding is preliminary, with the agency saying it expects to formally begin the rulemaking next year.
Chinese exporter Ninestar Corp. moved at the Court of International Trade to unseal and unredact the administrative record in its case against the Forced Labor Enforcement Task Force's (FLETF) decision to add the company to the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act Entity List. Ninestar said that while the trade court's recent order mandating disclosure to Ninestar's counsel of the government's evidentiary record marked some progress, the company's counsel said they remain "hobbled" since they can't share these materials with their client (Ninestar Corp. v. United States, CIT # 23-00182).
If a bill just introduced becomes law, importers of fossil fuels, refined petroleum products, petrochemicals, fertilizer, hydrogen, adipic acid, cement, iron and steel, aluminum, glass, pulp, paper, lime and gypsum products and ethanol would have to pay a duty at the border based on the carbon intensity of either the industry in the home country, the product, if a specific petition was made, or an economywide carbon intensity measure, if no reliable data is available by industry.
The U.K.'s Solicitors Regulation Authority fined British law firm Ashfords LLP about $128,000 for violating the country's anti-money laundering and terrorist financing regulations. The U.K. said Ashfords, in helping a property investment company conduct a transaction, failed to discover or act on a potential link between the company and one of its sanctioned beneficial owners.
The FCC seeks leave to allow two attorneys to argue on its behalf during Dec. 11 oral argument on the consolidated challenges brought by Dish Network and the International Dark-Sky Association against the FCC’s order authorizing SpaceX to deploy and operate a constellation of 7,500 second-generation Starlink communications satellites, said a commission motion Friday at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. The consolidated cases “raise unrelated legal and factual issues arising out of an FCC licensing proceeding,” said the motion. Dividing argument as requested will aid in the D.C. Circuit’s “understanding of the complex issues presented,” it said. Dish challenges the FCC’s determination that SpaceX’s Gen2 Starlink system won't cause harmful interference to geostationary satellite operations such as Dish’s direct broadcast satellite system (docket 23-1001), it said. IDSA argues that the FCC erred in concluding that the National Environmental Policy Act didn’t require additional environmental review of the SpaceX satellites (docket 22-1337), it said. Under the D.C. Circuit’s Nov. 29 order assigning the FCC 16 minutes of argument time to be divided with intervenor SpaceX as the parties see fit (see 2311300004), the FCC has agreed to “cede” four minutes to SpaceX, said the motion. Should the D.C. Circuit grant the motion dividing the remaining 12 minutes between attorneys Rachel Proctor May and James Carr, May will address all issues raised by IDSA, and Carr will address those raised by Dish, it said. The FCC believes that permitting argument to be divided in that manner will “materially aid” in the D.C. Circuit’s “understanding of the distinct interference and environmental challenges to the FCC’s order in this case,” it said. Counsel for Dish and SpaceX consent to the motion, but IDSA’s position is unknown, it said.
The U.K.'s Solicitors Regulation Authority fined British law firm Ashfords LLP about $128,000 for violating the country's anti-money laundering and terrorist financing regulations. The U.K. said Ashfords, in helping a property investment company conduct a transaction, failed to discover or act on a potential link between the company and one of its sanctioned beneficial owners.
The prospect of seeking unanimous consent for kids’ privacy legislation spurred further negotiation on the bills, so the Senate Commerce Committee will hold off initiating a hotline process, Chair Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., told us last week.
MGM Resorts International's “impermissibly inadequate data security” caused the personally identifiable information (PII) of plaintiffs and class members to be “exfiltrated by unauthorized cybercriminals” in a Sept. 7 data breach, alleged a Nov. 27 class action (see 2:23-cv-01981) transferred Thursday from U.S. District Court for Southern California to U.S. District Court for Nevada in Las Vegas.