Peterson v. National Railroad Passenger Corp.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• recognizing that defects in an expert witness’s education and experience go to the weight of the expert’s testimony
• holding experts lack of firsthand knowledge “goes to the weight of the testimony, not its admissibility”
• holding “evidence of [a defendant’s] deviation from their internal maintenance policies is admissible to show the element of the breach”
• applying federal procedural law to an appeal of a summary judgment motion in a state FELA action
• affirming the grant of summary judgment to a railroad when there was insufficient evidence of negligence on the railroad’s behalf
• affirming summary judgment for defendants due to lack of evidence that defendants’ failure to comply with their internal safety policies caused plaintiffs’ injuries

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).