Gary C. Lancaster v. Norfolk and Western Railway Company

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the applicability of the FELA to at least some intentional torts is “too well settled to be questioned any longer”
• concluding that a railroad’s vicarious liability was plain with regard to supervisors’ assaults of an 7 employee stemming from exasperation with the employee’s job performance
• holding that the applicability of the FELA to at least some intentional torts is “too well settled to be questioned any longer”
• noting that the “railroad’s liability would be even plainer” if an employee who struck another employee while swinging a sledgehammer at a pin stuck on a locomotive being repaired was merely careless
• rejecting proposed rule that FELA employers should be liable “without regard to traditional limitations on respondeat superior”
• rejecting proposed rule that FELA employers should be liable “without regard to traditional limitations on respondeat superior”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).