Snipes v. Chicago, Central & Pacific Railroad

How courts have described this case

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• noting federal law governs the measure of damages in a FELA case filed in state court
• noting federal law governs the measure of damages in a FELA case filed in state court
• “Recovery under the FELA requires an injured employee to prove that the defendant employer was negligent and that the negligence proximately caused, in whole or in part, the accident.”
• “The federal law is well settled that, under the FELA, the collateral source rule operates to prevent consideration of RRA disability pension payments in mitigation of damages suffered by an injured employee.” (citing Eichel)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).