federal-railroad-safety-act

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25A162 Paul W. Parker, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Curtis John Rookaird v. BNSF Railway Company, a Delaware Corporation Ninth Circuit 2025-08-06 Presumed Complete affirmative-defense burden-shifting clear-and-convincing-evidence de-novo-review federal-railroad-safety-act protected-activity Whether a district court's determination that an employer met its burden to prove, by "clear and convincing evidence," that it would have taken the sa…
24-1150 Clyde O. Carter, Jr. v. Lori Chavez-DeRemer, Secretary of Labor, et al. Eighth Circuit 2025-05-09 Denied Response Waived administrative-law burden-of-proof employment-retaliation federal-railroad-safety-act judicial-review whistleblower-protection In consideration of Loper Light Enterprises v. Raimondo, 603 U. S. (2024), in a whistleblower complaint is the burden of proof - in the protection pro…
22-459 Ohio v. CSX Transportation, Inc. Ohio 2022-11-15 Denied CVSGAmici (4)Relisted (2) federal-railroad-safety-act grade-crossing grade-crossing-statute interstate-commerce interstate-commerce-commission-termination-act preemption railroad-preemption railroad-safety state-regulation transportation transportation-law Ohio's "Blocked Crossing Statute," Ohio Rev. Code §5589.21, prohibits stopped trains from blocking public roads for longer than five minutes, with cer…
21-1296 City of Edmond, Oklahoma, et al. v. BNSF Railway Company Tenth Circuit 2022-03-25 Denied federal-railroad-safety-act interstate-commerce interstate-commerce-commission-termination-act preemption public-safety rail-crossing-safety rail-safety railroad-preemption state-authority state-law statutory-interpretation When trains block traffic at road intersections, they impose numerous safety risks. Oklahoma enacted a statute prohibiting trains from stopping where …
19-733 Metro-North Commuter Railroad Co. v. Jamey Murphy Connecticut 2019-12-10 Denied Response Waived federal-railroad-safety-act passenger-platform preemption state-law-claim state-law-claims track-conditions track-safety train-speed transportation-regulation Does the Federal Railroad Safety Act preempt a state-law claim that a train may not travel on a track next to a passenger platform at the operating sp…
18-499 Mark Griffioen, et al. v. Cedar Rapids and Iowa City Railways Company, et al. Iowa 2018-10-18 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) alternative-remedy civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-preemption federal-railroad-safety-act federal-remedy interstate-commerce interstate-commerce-commission-termination-act preemption preemption-under-iccta public-safety rail-transportation savings-clause state-law state-law-claims takings Whether the Iowa Supreme Court erred in holding that state laws of general application addressing primarily public safety issues and with only an inci…