Legal Opinion
In Re RAIL FREIGHT FUEL SURCHARGE ANTITRUST LITIGATION
District Court, District of Columbia
Decided September 3, 2013No. Misc. No. 2007-0489PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
PAUL L. FRIEDMAN, District Judge.
In this case, thirty-one named plaintiffs have alleged a far-reaching price-fixing conspiracy by the four largest rail freight carriers in the United States: BNSF Railway Company, CSX Transportation, Inc., Norfolk Southern Railway Company, and Union Pacific Railroad Company, which together account for nearly 90 percent of rail freight traffic in the country. On June 21, 2012, the Court certified a class consisting of approximately 80,000 shippers— a class that likely includes Oxbow Carbon & Minerals LLC and five of its affiliated companies (together,…
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