....whether to go after the longshoremen's union based on a federal court order that reopened the ports last week after a 10-day lockout.

Officials with the International Longshore and Warehouse Union pounced on Friday's delay as evidence the association was scrounging for a case � and unable to grasp one because workers are doing their best to move cargo under difficult and dangerous conditions.

But a spokesman with the Pacific Maritime Association, which represents shipping companies and port terminal operators, dismissed that suggestion....