IN RE RAIL FREIGHT FUEL SURCHARGE ANTITRUST LITIG.

MDL Dkt. No. 1869. Misc. No. 07-0489 (PLF).

965 F.Supp.2d 104 (2013)

In re RAIL FREIGHT FUEL SURCHARGE ANTITRUST LITIGATION. This document relates to: All Cases.

United States District Court, District of Columbia.

September 3, 2013.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Arthur N. Bailey, Jr. , Hausfeld LLP, San Francisco, CA, Michael P. Lehmann , Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll, PLLC, Steig D. Olson , Joseph D. Hammond , Kyle R. Taylor , Sami H. Rashid , Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP, David M. Peterson , Peterson & Associates, PC, Joseph A. Kronawitter , Horn, Aylward & Bandy, LLP, R. Keith Johnston , Walters Bender Strohbehn & Vaughan, PC, Kansas City, MO, Joseph M. Barton , Paul F. Bennett , Gwendolyn R. Giblin , Steven O. Sidener , Thomas C. Bright , Gold Bennett Cera & Sidener LLP, San Francisco, CA, James Joseph Pizzirusso , Michael D. Hausfeld , William P. Butterfield , Hausfeld LLP, Benjamin D. Brown , Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll PLLC, Roger M. Adelman , Law Offices of Roger M. Adelman, Paul M. Donovan , Laroe Winn, Moerman & Donovan, Sathya S. Gosselin , Seth R. Gassman , Hausfeld, LLP, Barry J. Nace , Paulson & Nace, Paul M. Donovan , Laroe Winn, Moerman & Donovan, Michelle A. Parfitt , Ashcraft & Gerel, Craig L. Briskin , Mehri & Skalet, PLLC, Washington, DC, Richard M. Hagstrom , Zelle, Hofmann, Voelbel & Mason LLP, Scott W. Carlson , Vincent J. Esades , Heins, Mills & Olson, P.L.C., Minneapolis, MN, Allen D. Black , Fine, Kaplan & Black, Brent W. Landau , Hausfeld LLP, Patrick Howard , Saltz, Mongeluzzi, Barrett & Bendesky, P.C., Jeffrey B. Gittleman , Barrack, Rodos & Bacine, Eugene A. Spector , Spector, Roseman and Kodroff PC, Jay S. Cohen , William G. Caldes , Spector, Roseman & Kodroff & Willis, P.C., Philadlephia, PA, Douglas A. Millen , Freed Kanner London & Millen LLC, Bannockburn, IL, Steven A. Kanner , Much Shelist Freed Denenberg & Ament, P.C., James Shedden , Lawrence W. Schad , Matthew S. Burns , Tony Kim, Schad Diamond & Shedden P.C., Chicago, IL, Thomas A. Muzilla , The Muzilla Law Firm, LLC, Cleveland, OH, Mark A. Griffin , Raymond J. Farrow , T. David Copley , Keller Rohrback L.L.P., Seattle, WA, Krishna B. Narine , Law Office of Krishna B. Narine, P.C., Huntingdon Valley, PA, Joanne Zack , Joshua D. Snyder , Michael J. Boni , Boni & Zack LLC, Bala Cynwyd, PA, Steven A. Kanner , Much Shelist Freed Denenberg & Ament, P.C., Mary Jane Fait , Wolf Haldenstein Adler Freeman & Herz, LLC, Chicago, IL, Joe R. Whatley, Jr. , Whatley Drake & Kallas, LLC, Marc L. Greenwald , Stephen R. Neuwirth , Daniel Brockett , Quinn Emanuel Urquhart Oliver & Hedges, LLP, New York, NY, Richard P. Rouco , Whatley Drake & Kallas, LLC, Birmingham, AL, Daniel Paul Dietrich , Williams Schifino Mangione & Steady, PA, Tampa, FL, Matthew H. Armstrong , Armstrong Law Firm LLC, St. Louis, MO, Susan Carole Minkin , Ashcraft & Gerel, Alexandria, VA, for Plaintiffs.

Andrew Santo Tulumello Gibson , Dunn & Crutcher, L.L.P. Richard Joseph Favretto , Michael E. Lackey, Jr. , Mayer Brown LLP, Linda Sue Stein , Samuel M. Sipe, Jr. , Steptoe & Johnson, L.L.P., Shari Ross Lahlou , Crowell & Moring LLP, Washington, DC, David G. Meyer , Tyrone R. Childress , David G. Meyer , Jones Day, Los Angeles, CA, Randy M. Mastro , Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, L.L.P., New York, NY, Robert C. Walters , Veronica S. Lewis , Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, Dallas, TX, David Daniel Cross , Kent Alan Gardiner , George D. Ruttinger , Kathryn D. Kirmayer , Michael Wyld Lieberman , Richard McMillan, Jr. , Shari Ross Lahlou , Crowell & Moring LLP, Claudia R. Higgins , Kaye Scholer, LLP, John Murray Nannes , Tara L. Reinhart , Sean M. Tepe , Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, LLP, Alan Mitchell Wiseman , Thomas Adam Isaacson , Covington & Burling LLP, James Scott Ballenger , Latham & Watkins LLP, Washington, DC, Jennifer B. Patterson , Saul P. Morgenstern , Kaye Scholer LLP, New York, NY, Alfred C. Pfeiffer, Jr. , Daniel M. Wall , Gregory P. Lindstrom , Timothy L. O'Mara , Latham & Watkins, San Francisco, CA, for Defendants.

Roger M. Adelman , Law Offices of Roger M. Adelman, Washington, DC, Richard P. Rouco , Whatley Drake & Kallas, LLC, Birmingham, AL, for Rail Freight Fuel Surcharge Antitrust Litigation — MDL No. 1869.


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...

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