Wicker v. Consolidated Rail Corporation

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that a release of future claims made as part of the settlement of an existing FELA claim is enforceable if the release of future claims was within the intent of the parties and the future claim was within the scope of the release
• noting that the Babbitt holding “was based in part on the fact that the releases formed part of a voluntary separation program, and were not the product of negotiations settling a claim.”
• upholding releases that provide \specific risks the employees faced during the course of their employment\
• upholding releases that provide “specific risks the employees faced during the course of their employment”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).