Ballard v. Union Pacific R. Co.

How courts have described this case

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• FELA case stating in dicta that there was no vicarious liability for sexually harassing conduct by employees who “were acting entirely upon their own impulses with no benefit to [their employer].”
• claim preclusion is affirmative defense which must ordinarily be pleaded to be available

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).