The Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals has issued a preliminary injunction against enforcement of a Florida law restricting real estate purchases by Chinese citizens. A hearing on the merits of the case is scheduled for April.

Hesai Technology, an electronics company headquartered in Shanghai, has said it will bring a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Defense in order to get itself taken off a blacklist of Chinese military companies.

Netgear, a California-based maker of Wi-Fi products, filed a lawsuit against Huawei in California federal court this week, claiming that Huawei violated U.S. antitrust law by refusing to license its patents on reasonable terms, and also alleging fraud, racketeering and other offenses for withholding patent licenses.

Litigation in U.S. court over the Biden administration's decision to put a two year pause on imposing tariffs on solar products is continuing, with new briefs filed that argue for dismissing the complaint by the U.S. producers of solar products.

Litigation by Chinese company Ninestar and its subsidiaries over a U.S. government decision to include them on the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act (UFLPA) Entity List continues, with new briefs filed by both sides.

In a complaint filed with the U.S. Court of International Trade on December 29, two U.S. solar companies argued that the Biden administration's decision to pause certain tariffs on imports of Chinese solar cells and modules was in violation of U.S. law.

There were two developments related to the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act (UFLPA) Entity List last week: The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced the addition of three Chinese companies to the Entity List; and Ninestar filed an amended complaint related to its inclusion on the list.