Csx Transportation, Inc. v. City of Plymouth, Michigan

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 FRSA preempted a city ordinance that imposed a five minute blocking limit
• holding that the FRSA preempted a city ordinance that imposed a five minute blocking limit
• finding that the FRSA’s savings clause does not apply to municipal ordinances
• relying on a 1989 report of the Secretary of Transportation to conclude that compliance with a local regulation would affect railroad safety
• looking at report discussing accident rates in assessing whether ordinance was preempted by FRSA
• \Only state laws regulating areas in which there have been no regulations promulgated are excepted from the FRSA preemption clause.\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).