The Commerce Department has released the final results of the antidumping duty administrative review on circular welded carbon-quality steel pipe from Oman (A-523-812). These final results will be used to set final assessments of AD on importers for subject merchandise entered during two review periods -- Dec. 1, 2019, through Nov. 30, 2020, and Dec. 1, 2020, through Nov. 30, 2021.
The Commerce Department has published the final results of the antidumping duty administrative review on steel concrete reinforcing bar from Mexico (A-201-844). These final results will be used to set final assessments of AD duties on importers for subject merchandise entered Nov. 1, 2020, through Oct. 31, 2021.
Fact discovery cutoff is planned for Dec. 12 in plaintiff Chun Wu’s Telephone Consumer Protection Act class action against National Tax Advisory Services, said a scheduling order Monday (docket 1:23-cv-00679) in U.S. District Court for Colorado in Denver. A final pretrial conference is set for March 14 in anticipation of a three-day jury trial, said the order, without giving a set trial date. Wu alleges the defendant violated the TCPA when it continued to place unsolicited and unauthorized calls playing prerecorded voices using technological equipment intended to spam consumers with its advertising. The defendant denies any TCPA wrongdoing and contends it doesn’t make marketing calls without appropriate consent. It also asserts it follows the law, and that any calls to Wu’s number at issue in the case were made lawfully. The parties haven’t engaged in “substantive settlement negotiations,” though they had “very preliminary” settlement talks, said the scheduling order. Wu will agree to consider mediation with a mutually selected mediator “should the negotiations occur and reach an impasse and the parties agree that mediation would be beneficial,” it said. The defendant “is open to mediation as well” as the case progresses, it said.
The Commerce Department has published the final results of the antidumping duty administrative review on welded stainless pressure pipe from India (A-533-867). These final results will be used to set final assessments of AD on importers for subject merchandise entered Nov. 1, 2020, through Oct. 31, 2021.
The Commerce Department released its preliminary affirmative antidumping determination June 14 that gas powered pressure washers from Vietnam (A-552-008) are being sold in the U.S. at less than fair value. Commerce found “critical circumstances” for all Vietnamese companies, and will retroactively suspend liquidation and impose AD cash deposit requirements for all subject merchandise as of March 17, 2023.
Microsoft’s past conduct “provides a preview” of a combined Microsoft/Activision if the tech giant consummates its acquisition of the video games company, said the FTC’s Monday complaint (docket 3:23-cv-02880) in U.S. District Court for Northern California in San Francisco, seeking a temporary restraining order against the deal. "Microsoft and Activision have represented ... that they may consummate the Proposed Acquisition at any time without any further notice" to the commission, said the redacted complaint.
NTIA heard a variety of comments, positive and negative, on the viability of the citizens broadband radio service as a model for future spectrum sharing. Comments, posted by the agency Tuesday, were due May 31 on an NTIA report on dynamic sharing and the three-tier sharing model offered by CBRS (see 2305010063). The report was by the agency’s Colorado lab, the Institute for Telecommunication Sciences (ITS).
Advertiser plaintiffs in a long-running antitrust lawsuit against media companies moved the court to appoint JND Legal Administration as the settlement administrator to provide notice and settlements to members of proposed settlement classes and to approve the means and form of notice, said their motion (docket 1:18-cv-06785) Friday in U.S. District Court for Northern Illinois in Chicago. They also seek to order defendants Tegna, Gray Media Group and Meredith to produce customer contact information. Defendants CBS, Fox, the Cox Entities and data tracking firm ShareBuilders agreed last month (see 2305300073) to a $48 million settlement with advertisers in the long-running antitrust lawsuit stemming from a 2018 DOJ investigation of ad price collusion that arose during inquiries into the failed Sinclair/Tribune deal. Under the settlement, Cox, CBS and Fox agreed to provide information and testimony that could help the advertisers as the litigation continues against broadcasters that aren’t part of the settlement, including Nexstar, Sinclair and Gray. On May 26, plaintiffs filed a motion for preliminary approval of the settlements in which plaintiffs sought certification of four settlement classes, one for each settling defendant. Plaintiffs now seek approval of the proposed notice program, expected to be directed to all putative members of the settlement classes, that will be supplemented by a media campaign, the filing said. The notice documents will contain “easy-to-read” settlement summaries and instructions on how to get more information, said the motion. Tegna, Raycom and Meredith have declined to produce customer contact information necessary to facilitate the notice program, the motion said. Their primary objection was that it was premature prior to plaintiffs’ seeking approval of settlements. With that objection now “mooted... there is no reason to delay entering an order compelling the production of this necessary information.”
The Commerce Department and the International Trade Commission published the following Federal Register notices June 13 on AD/CVD proceedings:
The Commerce Department published notices in the Federal Register June 13 on the following AD/CV duty proceedings (any notices that announce changes to AD/CV duty rates, scope, affected firms or effective dates will be detailed in another ITT article):