United States Third Circuit

Grant of a permanent injunction preventing the government from indicting parties for violations of the Sherman Act is reversed where, although in narrow circumstances federal courts have authority to enjoin the executive branch from filing an indictment, the case at hand did not present such circumstances.

Appellate Information

• Decided 03/23/2006
• Published 03/23/2006

Judges

• AMBRO, Circuit Judge., Before ALITO  and AMBRO, Circuit Judges and RESTANI, Judge.

Court

• United States Third Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• R. Hewitt Pate, Assistant Attorney General, Scott D. Hammond, Makan Delrahim, Deputy Assistant Attorneys General, John P. Fonte, John J. Powers, III, (Argued), United States Department of Justice, Antitrust Division, Washington, D.C., Robert E. Connolly, Antonia R. Hill, Wendy B. Norman, Kimberly Justice, Richard S. Rosenberg, U.S. Department of Justice, Philadelphia, PA, for Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Ian M. Comisky, Matthew D. Lee, Blank Rome LLP, Philadelphia, PA, George J. Terwillinger III, John M. Gidley, Christopher M. Curran, (Argued), Lucius B. Lau, White & Case LLP, Washington, D.C., for Appellee Stolt-Nielsen S.A. and Stolt-Nielsen Transportation Group Ltd., Roberta D. Liebenberg, Allen D. Black, (Argued), Gerard A. Dever, Fine, Kaplan & Black, Philadelphia, PA, James A. Backstrom, Jr., Philadelphia, PA, for Appellee Richard B. Wingfield.