The Commerce Department has released the final results of the antidumping duty administrative review on stainless steel bar from India (A-533-810). Set for publication in the Sept. 8 Federal Register, these final results will be used to set final assessments of AD duties on importers for subject merchandise from companies under review entered Feb. 1, 2021, through Jan. 31, 2022.
The Commerce Department has published the preliminary results of its antidumping duty administrative review of finished carbon steel flanges from India (A-533-871). In the final results of this review, Commerce will set AD assessment rates for subject merchandise for the companies under review entered Aug. 1, 2021, through July 31, 2022.
The Commerce Department has released the final results of the antidumping duty administrative review on crystalline silicon photovoltaic products from China (A-570-010). These final results will be used to set final assessments of AD duties on Trina Solar, the only company under review, for subject merchandise entered Feb. 1, 2021, through Jan. 31, 2022.
The Commerce Department has released the preliminary results of its antidumping duty administrative review on certain metal lockers from China (A-570-133). In the final results of this review, Commerce will set assessment rates for subject merchandise from five companies under review entered Feb. 11, 2021, through July 31, 2022.
Mark Walters, nationally syndicated talk show host of Armed American Radio, plans to file an amended defamation complaint against OpenAI by Friday, said the parties’ joint preliminary report and discovery plan Monday (docket 1:23-cv-03122) in U.S. District Court for Northern Georgia in Atlanta. Walters alleges OpenAI’s ChatGPT service defamed him to journalist Fred Riehl. OpenAI’s July 21 motion to dismiss Walters’ complaint said the lawsuit "fails to establish the basic elements of a defamation claim" (see 2307240031). OpenAI is evaluating whether Riehl “may be a necessary party to this action who has not been joined,” said Monday’s report. Key to OpenAI’s defense is its claim that Riehl ignored ChatGPT’s terms of use when he shared the defamatory “output” with Walters. One of the issues to be tried in the case is whether Riehl “was an intervening or superseding cause of any purported harm” to Walters, said Monday’s report.
The Commerce Department has amended the final results of the antidumping duty administrative review on softwood lumber products from Canada (A-122-857) to correct ministerial errors brought to its attention by the Committee Overseeing Action for Lumber International Trade Investigations or Negotiations after the final results were published Aug. 1.
U.S. District Judge Donald Molloy for Montana in Missoula, “absent exceptional circumstances,” will consider no additional motions for leave to file amicus briefs in support of or in opposition to the motions for a preliminary injunction to block Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen (R) from enforcing SB-419, the state’s TikTok ban, when the measure takes effect Jan. 1, said his text order Tuesday (dockets 9:23-cv-00056 and 9:23-cv-00061). The order doesn’t apply to the two motions for leave filed Friday that are pending, one from Virginia AG Jason Miyares (R), the other from the Institute for Family Studies, both opposed to the injunction (see 2309050003). Including those two pending motions, the dockets in the two consolidated lawsuits to block SB-419 include four amicus briefs in support of the injunction, and three in opposition.
The Commerce Department and the International Trade Commission published the following Federal Register notices Sept. 7 on AD/CVD proceedings:
Indiana Attorney General Theodore Rokita (R) went to U.S. District Court for Indiana in Indianapolis Tuesday seeking a permanent injunction to enjoin MV Realty, five of its subsidiaries and three of its officers “from further pursuit of an aggressive and illegal robocalling and telemarketing operation” targeting Indiana homeowners, said his complaint (docket 1:23-cv-01578).
A potential Indirect Source Rule that the South Coast Air Quality Management District is considering, which would affect the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, is necessary to avoid greater disruption from federal action should port emissions remain unaddressed, the district said in an email Sept. 1. It also said it is working with stakeholders to "come up with a proposed regulation that is feasible and can improve air quality without impacting cargo flows."