On Oct. 31, 2013, Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) submitted a brief in support of the defendants in one of the TFT-LCD Flat Panel Antitrust Litigation cases, requesting the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Illinois to reconsider a ruling of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, which held that the U.S. Foreign Trade Antitrust Improvement Act (FTAIA) did not preclude U.S. liability for sales of price-fixed LCD panels that never ente