Lower Lake Erie Iron Ore Antitrust Litigation, In re
| Decision Date | 09 June 1993 |
| Docket Number | No. 84-02781,WHEELING-PITTSBURGH,Nos. 91-1526,No. 84-02012,No. 587,No. 84-02010,No. 84-02134,91-1586-91-1595 and 91-1627-91-1634,No. 84-02079,No. 84-02135,No. 91-1633,No. 84-05562,No. 84-05760,No. 84-02138,587,84-02010,84-02012,84-02079,84-02134,84-02135,84-02138,84-02781,84-05562,84-05760,91-1633,s. 91-1526 |
| Parties | In re LOWER LAKE ERIE IRON ORE ANTITRUST LITIGATION (MDL). (Nineteen Cases). WILLS TRUCKING, INC.; Consolidated Dock and Storage, Inc.; Toledo World Terminal, Inc. v. BALTIMORE & OHIO RAILROAD COMPANY, INC.; Bessemer & Lake Erie Railroad, Inc.; Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Company, Inc.; CSX Corporation; Consolidated Rail Corporation; Norfolk & Western Railway Company, Inc.; Pittsburgh & Lake Erie Railroad Company (D.C. Civil). Wills Trucking, Inc. and Toledo World Terminal, Inc., Appellants in 91-1526. Bessemer and Lake Erie Railroad Company, Appellant in 91-1586. WILLS TRUCKING, INC.; Consolidated Dock and Storage, Inc.; Toledo World Terminal, Inc. v. BALTIMORE & OHIO RAILROAD COMPANY, INC.; Bessemer & Lake Erie Railroad, Inc.; Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Company, Inc.; CSX Corporation; Consolidated Rail Corporation; Norfolk & Western Railway Company, Inc.; Pittsburgh & Lake Erie Railroad Company (D.C. Civil). Bessemer and Lake Erie Railroad Company, Appellant in 91-1587. C.D. AMBROSIA TRUCKING CO., INC. v. CHESAPEAKE & OHIO RAILWAY COMPANY; Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company, Inc.; CSX Corporation, Inc.; Norfolk & Western Railway Company, Inc.; Bessemer and Lake Erie Railroad Company, Inc.; Consolidated Rail Corporation; the Penn Central Corporation, Inc. (D.C. Civil). Bessemer and Lake Erie Railroad Company, Appellant in 91-1588. REPUBLIC STEEL CORPORATION v. The PENN CENTRAL CORPORATION; the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Company; the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company; CSX Corporation; Consolidated Rail Corporation; Bessemer & Lake Erie Railroad Company; Norfolk & Western Railway Company; and the Pittsburgh & Lake Erie Railroad Company (D.C. Civil). Bessemer and Lake Erie Railroad Company, Appellant in 91-1589. NATIONAL STEEL CORPORATION v. PENN CENTRAL CORPORATION; the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Company; the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company; CSX Corporation; Bessemer & Lake Erie Railroad Company; Consolidated Rail Corporation (Civil). Bessemer and Lake Erie Railroad Co |
| Court | U.S. Court of Appeals — Third Circuit |
Paul F. Beery, Michael Spurlock (argued), Kitt C. Cooper (argued), Beery & Spurlock Co., L.P.A., Columbus, OH, for Wills Trucking Inc. and Toledo World Terminal, Inc.
James V. Dick, Timothy W. Bergin, Squire, Sanders & Dempsey, Washington, DC, James M. Porter, Thomas S. Kilbane, Stacy D. Ballin, Squire, Sanders & Dempsey, Cleveland, OH, Howard J. Trienens (argued), G. Paul Moates, Carter G. Phillips, Sidley & Austin, Washington, DC, Thomas A. Masterson, Jr., William J. Taylor, Taylor & Taylor, Philadelphia, PA, for Bessemer & Lake Erie R. Co.
Kenneth P. Kolson, Ass'n of American Railroads, Washington, DC, for amicus Association of American Railroads.
Richard McMillan, Jr., Crowell & Moring, Washington, DC, for amicus CSX Trans. Inc.
Laurence Z. Shiekman, Pepper, Hamilton & Scheetz, Philadelphia, PA, for amicus Consolidated Rail Corp.
Bruce J. Ennis (argued), Carl S. Nadler, Jenner & Block, Washington, DC, Lawrence R. Velvel, Michael L. Coyne, Windham, NH, for CD Ambrosia Trucking, Erie Western Pennsylvania Port Authority and Codan Corp.
Richard T. Colman (argued), Robert F. Ruyak, Robert L. Green, Jr., Jerrold J. Ganzfried, Basil C. Culyba, Marcia P. Kaplan, Howrey & Simon, Washington, DC, for Republic Steel Corp., Jones & Laughlin Steel Inc. and Wheeling-Pittsburgh Steel Corp.
William M. Wycoff (argued), Kevin C. Abbott, George P. Faines, Julie A. Maloney, Thorp, Reed & Armstrong, Pittsburgh, PA, for National Steel Corp. and Sharon Steel Corp.
Jerry S. Cohen, Ann C. Yahner, Cohen, Milstein, Hausfeld & Toll, Washington, DC, for Tauro Bros. Trucking Co.
Before: MANSMANN, SCIRICA and ROTH, Circuit Judges.
Industries involved in the transportation and manufacturing of iron ore are the adversaries The eventual trial was bifurcated into liability and damages phases. The liability jury reached a verdict against Bessemer and Lake Erie Railroad Company ("B & LE"), the sole remaining defendant, and in favor of all plaintiffs but one--David W. Reaney and Reaney Dock Co. The first jury was discharged and a new jury, empaneled for the damages phase, reached a verdict awarding all but one claim for damages. B & LE's motion for judgment n.o.v. was denied in most respects. Post-trial motions lodged by the Wills plaintiffs were likewise denied.
in this complex multi-district antitrust litigation. Five steel companies, three dock companies and three trucking companies filed civil actions in various federal district courts, alleging that the railroad companies serving the lower Lake Erie industrial region conspired in violation of federal and state antitrust laws to preclude potential competitors from entering the market of lake transport, dock handling, storage and land transport of iron ore. 1...To continue reading
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