Robert L. Holbrook v. Norfolk Southern Railway Company

How courts have described this case

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• noting that a railroad will be held liable if employer negligence played any part, even the slightest, in producing the injury.
• declining to find that defendant had created dangerous condition on grounds that defendant was not “clear cause ” of plaintiffs injuries
• “With this lighter burden of proof, a [FELA] plaintiff can more easily survive a motion for summary judgment.”
• “Because it is meant to offer broad remedial relief to railroad workers, a plaintiffs burden when suing under the FELA is significantly lighter than in an ordinary negligence case.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).