Napier v. Atlantic Coast Line Railroad

How courts have described this case

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• holding that state regulations regarding the use of cab curtains and fire-box doors were preempted by (LBIA)
• holding that the BIA preempts any state law that would affect “the design, the construction, and the material of every part of the locomotive and tender and of all appurtenances”
• describing the history of the legislation and quoting statutory language that applied only to “safe and suitable boilers and appurtenances thereto”
• applying field preemption under Locomotive Inspection Act for railroad safety equip‐ ment
• applying field preemption under Locomotive Inspection Act for railroad safety equip‐ ment
• applying field preemption under Locomotive Inspection Act for railroad safety equip‐ ment

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).