Jesus A. Trinidad v. Southern Pacific Transportation Company

How courts have described this case

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• interpreting FSAA and employing bright-line test based on whether train is fully assembled and crew has completed predeparture inspection
• looking at earlier version of Safety Appliances Act, 45 U.S.C. § 1 et seq. (repealed 1994)
• a “train” that had not been moved from where it was assembled and not yet released for departure into interstate commerce because inspection was not yet complete was not “in use” under the FSAA

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).