In re Rail Freight Fuel Surcharge Antitrust Litigation

Doug Bernheim and Leslie Marx were retained on behalf of multiple direct-action plaintiffs in the In re Rail Freight Fuel Surcharge Antitrust Litigation. The case involves allegations that the four largest US-based Class I railroads—Burlington Northern Santa Fe, CSX Transportation, Norfolk Southern, and Union Pacific—conspired to increase the price of rail freight transportation services in the United States. The case is ongoing.

Due to the large amount of data and the need to perform complex analyses with those data, the team leveraged cloud-based high-performance computing to perform the analysis in a shorter time. This efficiency allowed the experts to gain deeper insights that would have been more time-consuming and complicated without these tools.