Full steam ahead: The Tipline for 1 October 2018

As President Barack Obama’s choice to fill the Supreme Court seat of the late Antonin Scalia, Judge Merrick Garland never got a hearing or a vote from the Senate. But on Friday, he once again got a chance to weigh in on economic modelling used in an antitrust case as the Washington, DC, federal appellate court heard oral arguments in the Rail Freight Fuel Surcharge litigation. We also have coverage of Makan Delrahim discussing competition related to T-Mobile and Sprint and the latest from the testimony of a former Ottobock chief executive.