United States Fourth Circuit

Defendant's scheme, which raised the prices the Department of Defense pays to transport its personnel's belongings overseas, is not immune from antitrust liability under the Shipping Act.

Appellate Information

• Argued 03/18/2005
• Decided 06/14/2005
• Published 06/14/2005

Judges

• Before WILKINSON and GREGORY, Circuit Judges, and FREDERICK P. STAMP, JR., United States District Judge for the Northern District of West Virginia, sitting by designation.

Court

• United States Fourth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• ARGUED:  John J. Powers, III, United States Department of Justice, Antitrust Division, Appellate Section, Washington, D.C., for the United States.  Charles Frederick Rule, Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson, L.L.P., Washington, D.C., for Gosselin World Wide Moving, N.V., and The Pasha Group.   ON BRIEF:  R. Hewitt Pate, Assistant Attorney General, Makan Delrahim, Deputy Assistant Attorney General, James M. Griffin, Deputy Assistant Attorney General, Andrea Limmer, Hays Gorey, Jr., Mark W. Pletcher, Craig Y. Lee, United States Department of Justice, Antitrust Division, Appellate Section, Washington, D.C., for the United States. Henry W. Asbill, Cozen O'Connor, P.C., Washington, D.C.;   C. Allen Foster, Joe R. Reeder, Shirley Z. Johnson, Greenberg Traurig, L.L.P., Washington, D.C., for Gosselin World Wide Moving, N.V. Anthony V. Nanni, Tommy P. Beaudreau, Michael J. Anstett, Franklin M. Rubinstein, Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson, L.L.P., Washington, D.C., for The Pasha Group.