Winston B. Lewy v. Southern Pacific Transportation Company

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• reiterating circuit rule that FELA covers claims for negligent infliction of wholly emotional injuries
• in enacting the RLA, “Congress specifically intended *** to keep railroad labor disputes out of the courts and instead requires the use of grievance procedures and arbitration” (emphasis in original)
• “[S]ection [60] applies only to railroad employees discharged or disciplined for furnishing information to others; it does not encompass employees who are discharged or disciplined because they themselves initiate FELA actions.”
• RLA remedies are backpay and reinstatement
• no private right of action

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).