James "J.R." Hamilton

Experience

Antitrust/Competition

• In re Rail Freight Fuel Surcharge Antitrust Litigation – Serving as counsel to dozens of rail-freight shippers in a high-profile antitrust case concerning alleged fuel-surcharge collusion among the nation’s largest rail-freight carriers.
• In re Manufactured Home Lot Rents Antitrust Litigation – Hausfeld is co-lead counsel in an antitrust case filed on behalf of a putative nationwide class of manufactured home residents against nine community management companies and a market data provider, Datacomp Appraisal Systems Inc. The Plaintiffs allege that the Defendants conspired to exchange competitively sensitive information and fixed the price of rents at manufactured home lots across the country from at least 2019 through the present. 

Human Rights

• Kashef v. BNP Paribas SA – Representing a class of victims of human-right abuses committed by the Government of Sudan and militias, suing a French financial institution for its fraudulent financial practices, that allowed the Sudanese government to evade American sanctions.