(Source: SCOTUS Blog, April 25, 2017)
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Supreme Court seemed ready to hand a victory to railroad company BNSF in a lawsuit brought by two of the company’s injured workers. A solid majority of the justices appeared unconvinced that the Federal Employers’ Liability Act, a federal law that allows railroad workers to sue their employers for injuries that occur on the job, allows the workers to sue the company — which is incorporated in Delaware and has its principal place of business in Texas — in Montana, even though neither worker lived in Montana or was injured there.
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