Add to ORKGIn response to the need created by a highly dangerous era of railroad employment, and subsequent to the passage of similar legislation in Europe, there was enacted in 1906 a Federal Employers\u27 Liability Act. The attempted coverage of the first FELA was too broad to withstand the constitutional scrutiny of a five-to-four Supreme Court, and it consequently remained for the Congress of 1908 to enact valid legislation for the protection of the railroad employee. Whether or not: the FELA is the most efficacious solution to the problem of the injured railroad employee continues to be warmly debated, but for the present the act provides one of the most heavily litigated of all federally created rights capable of enforcement in state as well as...
The United States Supreme Court in Consolidated Rail Corp. v. Gottshall granted certiorari for two c...
The U.S. Supreme Court has long interpreted the National Labor Relations Act as permitting employers...
Petitioner, a laborer in a railroad section gang, was assigned to burn weeds near a railroad track. ...
In response to the need created by a highly dangerous era of railroad employment, and subsequent to ...
This paper examines the impact of a monumental change in tort liability law, the Federal Employers\u...
This Article examines the Federal Employers\u27 Liability Act (FELA). The authors chronicle the deve...
The plaintiff, an employee of the defendant railroad, brought an action based on the Federal Employe...
Two recent decisions of the United States Supreme Court have resolved this problem. In the first cas...
Plaintiff seaman, having been injured while serving on a vessel owned and operated by the defendant ...
In 1956 the Supreme Court handed down two decisions interpreting the 1939 Amendment to the Federal E...
Petitioner suffered injuries in the course of his duties as an employee of respondent railroad. Subs...
In this Article, Professor Phillips addresses the attacks leveled at the Federal Employers Liability...
Some circuits have taken the position that the venue provisions are mandatory, thus limiting venue f...
This Article critiques the recent rash of federal district court opinions holding that all named pla...
Plaintiff sustained serious injuries when he was struck by a mail pouch thrown from defendant\u27s m...
The United States Supreme Court in Consolidated Rail Corp. v. Gottshall granted certiorari for two c...
The U.S. Supreme Court has long interpreted the National Labor Relations Act as permitting employers...
Petitioner, a laborer in a railroad section gang, was assigned to burn weeds near a railroad track. ...
In response to the need created by a highly dangerous era of railroad employment, and subsequent to ...
This paper examines the impact of a monumental change in tort liability law, the Federal Employers\u...
This Article examines the Federal Employers\u27 Liability Act (FELA). The authors chronicle the deve...
The plaintiff, an employee of the defendant railroad, brought an action based on the Federal Employe...
Two recent decisions of the United States Supreme Court have resolved this problem. In the first cas...
Plaintiff seaman, having been injured while serving on a vessel owned and operated by the defendant ...
In 1956 the Supreme Court handed down two decisions interpreting the 1939 Amendment to the Federal E...
Petitioner suffered injuries in the course of his duties as an employee of respondent railroad. Subs...
In this Article, Professor Phillips addresses the attacks leveled at the Federal Employers Liability...
Some circuits have taken the position that the venue provisions are mandatory, thus limiting venue f...
This Article critiques the recent rash of federal district court opinions holding that all named pla...
Plaintiff sustained serious injuries when he was struck by a mail pouch thrown from defendant\u27s m...
The United States Supreme Court in Consolidated Rail Corp. v. Gottshall granted certiorari for two c...
The U.S. Supreme Court has long interpreted the National Labor Relations Act as permitting employers...
Petitioner, a laborer in a railroad section gang, was assigned to burn weeds near a railroad track. ...