Clarence J. Williams v. National Railroad Passenger Corporation

How courts have described this case

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• noting that under the FELA “an employer is not liable if it has no reasonable way of knowing that a potential hazard exists”
• stating that the Seventh Circuit has consistently declined to infer negligence when a plaintiff fails to produce any evidence suggesting that the employer played even the slightest role in bringing about the injury
• affirming summary judgment for defendant where plaintiff provided no evidence that railroad actually knew or should have known of defect
• “[A] FELA plaintiff injured by a defective condition cannot recover damages without showing that the employer had actual or constructive notice of the condition.”
• “[A] FELA plaintiff injured by a defective condition cannot recover damages without showing that the employer had actual or constructive notice of the condition.”
• FELA actions are commonly submitted to juries on “evidence scarcely more substantial than pigeon bone broth” (citation omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).