Stolt-Nielsen v. U.S.

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  1. Supreme Court Nominee Garland: An Assessment of Antitrust Expertise

    Baker & Hostetler LLPCarl HittingerApril 6, 2016

    Garland concurred and dissented, stating that the line-item information was not shielded from disclosure. Garland expressed his view that the D.C. Circuit failed to give the Air Force the deference it was owed, absent actual evidence of substantial harm to McDonnell Douglas if the ­information was released.Garland did not hear another case in which substantive antitrust issues were before the D.C. Circuit until 2008, when the court considered Stolt-Nielsen Transportation Group Ltd. v. United States, 534 F.3d 728, 733 (D.C. Cir. 2008), another case raising issues of public access to government records. In that case, Stolt-Nielsen Transportation Group, a parcel tanker shipping company, allegedly colluded with other such companies not to compete on deep-sea trade routes as part of an international cartel.