Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway v. Buell

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that the Federal Employers’ Liability Act provides “substantive protection ... independent of the employer’s obligations under its collective bargaining agreement”
• holding that the Federal Employers’ Liability Act provides “substantive protection . . . independent of the employer’s obligations under its collective bargaining agreement”
• recognizing that some duty issues may “not necessarily [turn on] an abstract point of law or a pure question of statutory construction that might be answerable without exacting scrutiny of the facts of the case”
• stating that the Federal Employers' Liability Act is a \broad remedial statute\ which must be given a \`liberal construction' \
• stating that the Federal Employers’ Liability Act is a “broad remedial statute” which must be given a “ 'liberal construction’ ”
• observing that “[t]he coverage of the statute is defined in broad language, which has been construed even more broadly”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).