The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled against drone manufacturer DJI's arguments that the government violated its due process rights when designating it as a Chinese military company, that the government failed to prove the company was still receiving benefits from the Chinese government and that it was arbitrarily treated differently than other “similarly situated” companies, according to an Aug. 14 opinion filed by Judge Bradley Garcia.
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Plaintiffs in the Burlap and Barrel, Learning Resources and State of Oregon cases against the government’s Section 301 forced labor tariffs failed to reach consensus about which case should be selected as the “sample case” that will be litigated first at the Court of International Trade, the plaintiffs said in an Aug. 17 joint response (In Re Section 301 Forced Labor Cases, CIT # 26-03555).
The government argued that it didn’t violate the Administrative Procedure Act and provided customs broker Forrest Xu with adequate notice before deactivating his entry filer code, but Xu said that the government was required to provide written notice of the proposed deactivation and only gave “a hodgepodge of vaguely-worded informed compliance warning letters,” according to the government’s Aug. 12 brief and Xu’s Aug. 17 brief filed with the Court of International Trade (Forrest Xu v. U.S. Customs and Border Protection, CIT # 26-03403).
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Former Northrop Grumman Lawyer Joins K&L Gates
Jeremy Huffman joined K&L Gates’ international trade, investment controls and national security practice group as a partner, according to an Aug. 17 LinkedIn post. Huffman previously spent over 7 years at Northrop Grumman, where he was a senior corporate counsel.
Former ITC Attorney Adviser Joins Mintz
Michael Leib, a former attorney adviser to multiple International Trade Commission commissioners, joined Mintz as a member in its intellectual property practice. Leib spent 14 years with the ITC, serving as an attorney adviser to Commissioner Amy Karpel and former commissioners Rhonda Schmidtlein and Shara Aranoff.
Treasury Lawyer Moves to Morrison Foerster’s National Security Group
Annie Wartanian Reisinger, who has held senior legal roles at the Treasury Department for the past seven years, announced July 29 on LinkedIn that she has joined Morrison Foerster’s national security group as a partner focusing on export controls, sanctions and the Committee on Foreign Investment in the U.S.
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