(Source: Supreme Court of the United States Blog, March 4, 2019)
WASHINGTON, D.C. — A laid-off railroad worker goes head to head with the world’s fourth-largest publicly traded corporation over a $3,765 payment that — the worker says — is owed to him because the corporation’s negligence caused him to fall through a snow-covered drainage grate and suffer a severe knee injury. The Trump administration backs the corporation, while a trial lawyers’ group with close ties to the Democratic Party comes in to support the worker. The Supreme Court sides with the corporation, but only over a stinging dissent from two justices who warn that the court’s decision will allow railroads to stiff-arm their injured employees.
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