Fuselier v. Kansas City Southern Railway Co.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that because of statutory remedial scheme, court would not imply a cause of action arising directly under the state constitution
• holding that because of statutory remedial scheme, court would not imply a cause of action arising directly under the state constitution
• relying in relevant part on Multi-Service Contractors, Inc. v. Town of Vernon, 193 Conn. 446, 477 A.2d 653, 655-56 (1984
• declining to infer existence of Bivens style cause of action under Article First, § 8 in similar context
• declining to hold that the availability of common law remedies would be sufficient to defeat a claim for the creation of a cause of action under the State Constitution
• declining to “construe our state constitution to provide a basis for the recognition of a private damages action for injuries for which the legislature has provided a reasonably adequate statutory remedy”

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