Transportation
Services
Industries
Our transportation practice focuses on the antitrust issues raised by complex supply chains, overlapping regulatory regimes and the logistical hurdles of a globalized economy.
We have represented shippers, truckers and others throughout the transportation sector, including in the oceanic, railroad, motor carrier and airline industries
Key cases
SCL attorneys helped lead this decade-long litigation, resulting in more than $1.2 billion for plaintiffs. In a case referred to by the court as “irrefutably complex,” SCL attorneys represented businesses that purchased airfreight services directly from defendants, many of the world’s largest airlines. The case alleged a global conspiracy to unlawfully inflate the prices charged to ship goods.
SCL attorneys represented one of the world’s largest energy companies in a direct antitrust action against Union Pacific Railroad Company and BNSF Railway Company for allegedly conspiring to impose fuel surcharges on rail shipments.
SCL attorneys defended Expeditors International in class action litigation, and associated grand jury investigation into alleged anticompetitive practices in the freight forwarding industry.
SCL attorneys have successfully advocated before the Federal Maritime Commission during confidential investigatory proceedings.