Engvall v. Soo Line Railroad Co.

How courts have described this case

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

• providing that FELA \allows railroad employees to recover from their employers for employment-related injuries caused by employer negligence\
• allowing Soo Line to pursue state-law cause of action based on violation of federal safety standard in LIA
• allowing Soo Line to pursue state-law cause of action based on violation of federal safety standard in LIA
• allowing Soo Line to pursue state-law cause of action based on violation of federal safety standard in LIA
• establishing that while a statute may not by its own terms confer a private right of action, this “merely means that [such statutes] do not provide statutory causes of action, and that a party suing for violation of [them] must do so under a common law action”
• establishing that while a federal statute may not by its own terms confer a private right of action, this “merely means that [such statutes] do not provide statutory causes of action, and that a party suing for violation of [them] must do so under a common law action”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).