MILESCO v. Norfolk Southern Corp.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the SAA did not preempt plaintiff's negligence and products liability claims stemming from his accident involving a cushion unit because defendants \fail[ed] to explain where in the SAA the dismantling and discarding of a cushion unit is regulated\
• noting a cushion unit that absorbed energy transferred between railcars when they were moved to prevent derailment was an appurtenance under the LIA
• “Q: And after traction motors were stripped and refurbished at Motor Coils, they were then sold back to the railroad where they were installed and used again on Locomotives. Is that your understanding? A: Yeah. It may not be the railroad that it originally came from, but yeah.”

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