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BlueScope Steel loses bid to vet sensitive documents in Australian cartel lawsuit

By James Panichi ( September 23, 2020, 01:30 GMT | Insight) -- BlueScope Steel has failed in its attempt to keep all documents used against it in a civil-cartel lawsuit under wraps to allow the company to vet them for commercially sensitive information, with an Australian judge ruling that the request would place too great a burden on the country’s competition watchdog. Judge Michael O’Bryan said the BlueScope court order was too broad and vague and it would impose unreasonable obligations on the Australian Competition & Consumer Commission. BlueScope Steel has failed in its attempt to keep all documents used against it in a civil-cartel lawsuit under wraps to allow the company to vet them for commercially sensitive information, with an Australian judge ruling that the request would place too great a burden on the country’s competition watchdog....

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