Battle of the briefs: UP-NS fires back at AGs anti-merger letter

Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern are bringing out the Dream Team. The railroads reached into academia to gather a quartet of former government anti-trust experts in an effort to refute the latest filing by red state Attorneys General urging regulators to reject the proposed merger that would create the first U. S. transcontinental freight railroad. In a nine-page filing submitted Wednesday to the Surface Transportation Board that read like a legal brief complete with citations, the experts cautioned that merger complaints stand as conjecture – and not proof.