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· 3/30/1990

Walter D. Adams v. Csx Transportation, Inc.

Citations

  • 899 F.2d 536
  • 1990 U.S. App. LEXIS 4650
  • 1990 WL 33992

How courts have described this case

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  • “[T]he causation test is whether ‘employer negligence played any part, even the slightest, in producing the injury’ for which the plaintiff seeks recovery.”
  • “The causation test is whether ‘employer negligence played any part, even the slightest, in producing the injury’ for which the plaintiff seeks recovery.”
  • harm in form of emotional breakdown not foreseeable where plaintiff did not lodge any complaint against supervisor, seemed content with work situation, and verbally abusive supervisory style had not changed over the years
  • harm in form of emotional breakdown not foreseeable where plaintiff did not lodge any complaint against supervisor, seemed content with work situation, and verbally abusive supervisory style had not changed over the years

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Judges: Wellford, Guy, Engel

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