| 25-121 |
Kera Morgan, as Administrator and Personal Representative of the Estate of Phillip Raymond Morgan v. Union Pacific Railroad Company, a Delaware Corporation |
Iowa |
2025-07-31 |
Denied |
employee-suicide federal-employers-liability-act negligence workplace-harassment wrongful-death zone-of-danger |
Whether the 'zone of danger' test from Gottshall applies to FELA wrongful death claims involving employee suicide, and whether workplace harassment-in… |
| 24-1254 |
City of Palestine, Texas, et al. v. Union Pacific Railroad Company |
Texas |
2025-06-09 |
Denied |
constitutional-interpretation iccta-preemption interstate-commerce retroactive-application separation-of-powers state-court-judgment |
Whether the Texas Supreme Court erred in retroactively applying the Interstate Commerce Commission Termination Act's preemption provisions to a final … |
| 24-1039 |
Adolfo Sandor Montero v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-04-01 |
Denied |
brushaber-doctrine circuit-court-conflict judicial-interpretation legal-precedent supervisory-power supreme-court-rule |
Whether the Supreme Court should exercise its supervisory power to resolve circuit court conflicts regarding the Brushaber doctrine and prevent mischa… |
| 24-643 |
Union Pacific Railroad Company, a Delaware Corporation v. Robert Anthony Zaragoza |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-12-12 |
Denied |
circuit-split class-action class-certification procedural-tolling statute-of-limitations tolling-doctrine |
Is American Pipe tolling limited to actual members of the putative or certified class, or does it extend to non-class members so long as they were not… |
| 24-630 |
Union Pacific Railroad Company, a Delaware Corporation v. Nicholas DeFries |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-12-09 |
Denied |
american-pipe-rule circuit-split class-action class-certification statute-of-limitations tolling-doctrine |
Is American Pipe tolling limited to actual members of the putative or certified class, or does it extend to non-class members so long as they were not… |
| 24-610 |
Union Pacific Railroad Company v. Todd DeGeer |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-12-04 |
Denied |
american-pipe-rule circuit-split class-action class-certification statute-of-limitations tolling-doctrine |
Is American Pipe tolling limited to actual members of the putative or certified class, or does it extend to non-class members so long as they were not… |
| 24A389 |
Union Pacific Railroad Company v. Robert Anthony Zaragoza |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-10-22 |
Presumed Complete |
american-pipe-tolling burden-of-proof civil-procedure class-action class-certification statute-of-limitations |
Whether a plaintiff seeking to benefit from American Pipe tolling must definitively demonstrate inclusion in a previously decertified class definition… |
| 24A340 |
Union Pacific Railroad Company v. Nicholas DeFries, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-10-09 |
Presumed Complete |
american-pipe-tolling civil-procedure class-action class-certification employment-discrimination statute-of-limitations |
Whether courts should resolve ambiguity in a class definition by presumptively applying American Pipe tolling unless a defendant can definitively prov… |
| 23-362 |
Perry Hopman v. Union Pacific Railroad |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-10-04 |
Denied |
ada americans-with-disabilities-act civil-rights disability disability-rights employment employment-discrimination equal-access essential-job-functions reasonable-accommodation |
Whether the ADA's reasonable accommodation requirement is limited to accommodations that enable an employee to perform the essential functions of a po… |
| 23-275 |
Nancy Avina v. Union Pacific Railroad |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-09-21 |
Denied |
42-usc-1981 age-discrimination age-discrimination-in-employment-act civil-rights employment-discrimination employment-law federal-preemption preemption railway-labor-act statutory-interpretation |
Does the Railway Labor Act preempt, preclude or otherwise limit claims under anti-discrimination statutes? |
| 23A123 |
Perry Hopman v. Union Pacific Railroad |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-08-11 |
Presumed Complete |
americans-with-disabilities-act circuit-split disability-discrimination essential-job-functions reasonable-accommodation service-animal |
Whether the Americans with Disabilities Act requires an employer to provide a reasonable accommodation to an employee with a disability when the emplo… |
| 23-5215 |
Aisha Wright v. Union Pacific Railroad Company |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-07-26 |
Denied |
administrative-law civil-rights due-process federal-rules financial-gain judicial-misconduct legal-malpractice oath-of-office summary-judgment |
Whether the lower court abused its discretion in dismissing the petitioner's case despite newly discovered evidence of judicial misconduct, violations… |
| 22-1131 |
Brenda R. Blalock v. Union Pacific Railroad Company |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-05-19 |
Denied |
civil-procedure de-novo-review iccta-preemption jurisdiction jurisdictional-review legal-standing procedural-forfeiture rollins-v-home-depot standing summary-judgment |
Whether the ICCTA-preemption-is-a-jurisdictional-issue |
| 22A990 |
Aisha Wright v. Union Pacific Railroad Company |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-05-12 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
|
| 22-480 |
City of Palestine, Texas, et al. v. Union Pacific Railroad Company |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-11-21 |
Denied |
circuit-conflict circuit-split contractual-obligations iccta-preemption interstate-commerce interstate-commerce-commission-termination-act judicial-review preemption retroactive-application summary-judgment |
Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in retroactively applying the preemption provisions of the Interstate Commerce Commission Termination Act (ICCTA) to a… |
| 22-225 |
Leopoldo Mendoza-Gomez v. Union Pacific Railroad Company, Individually and Successor-in-Interest to Southern Pacific Transportation Company |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-09-12 |
Dismissed |
asbestos-exposure cancer disease-claims existing-controversy federal-employers-liability-act fela future-liability railroad-liability release statutory-interpretation |
Whether a release of an 'existing controversy' that also purports to exempt a railroad from future liability for legally distinct claims for diseases … |
| 22-220 |
Union Pacific Railroad Company v. Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-09-09 |
Denied |
antiunion-animus arbitration-procedures circuit-split collective-bargaining mandatory-arbitration railway-labor-act statutory-interpretation union-representation union-representatives |
Whether union 'representatives' under 45 U.S.C. § 152 Third means all union officers (as the court below held), only those union officers serving as c… |
| 22A85 |
Leopoldo Mendoza-Gomez v. Union Pacific Railroad Company, Individually and Successor-In-Interest to Southern Pacific Transportation Company |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-08-01 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
|
| 22A6 |
Union Pacific Railroad Company v. Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-07-01 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
|
| 20-807 |
Bradley LeDure v. Union Pacific Railroad Company |
Seventh Circuit |
2020-12-15 |
Judgment Issued |
circuit-split federal-employers-liability-act foreseeability in-use interstate-commerce locomotive-inspection-act negligence-per-se railroad-liability safety-regulation statutory-interpretation |
Whether a locomotive is in use on a railroad's line and subject to the LIA and its safety regulations |
| 19-949 |
Wisconsin Department of Revenue, et al. v. Union Pacific Railroad Company |
Seventh Circuit |
2020-01-29 |
Denied |
4-r-act commercial-entities discrimination-claim intangible-property property-tax property-tax-exemption railroad-taxation state-taxation tax-exemption |
Does a State violate subsection (b)(4) by exempting intangible-personal-property of non-railroads from its personal-property-tax, but not exempting su… |
| 19A693 |
Wisconsin Department of Revenue, et al. v. Union Pacific Railroad Company |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-12-20 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
|
| 19-271 |
Catherine Stouffer, et al. v. Union Pacific Railroad Company |
Texas |
2019-08-30 |
Denied |
administrative-law agency-deference federal-agency-deference federal-highway-administration federal-preemption federal-railroad-administration federal-regulations railroad-safety regulatory-interpretation state-federal-agreement state-law-claims state-railroad-agreement state-railroad-agreements warning-time |
Should FRA regulations be interpreted in concert with FHWA regulations to enforce safety standards in 'State-railroad agreements,' rather than 'suppla… |