(Source: Courthouse News Service, September 30, 2019)
NEW YORK — Freight train organizations want a federal judge to prevent Illinois from enforcing a law that sets a minimum of two people per crew because they say it violates federal law and there is no evidence the new rule would improve safety. Indiana Rail Road Company claims in a lawsuit filed Monday in Chicago federal court that federal regulations preempt the crew size law that Democratic Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker signed in August. The company and two other groups asked the court to bar the law as void and unenforceable. The new state regulation is set to take effect Jan. 1, 2020.
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