Dolores Schneider v. National Railroad Passenger Corp.

OAKES, Circuit Judge:

This appeal presents us with the question whether employment, for purposes of the Federal Employers’ Liability Act (“FELA”), 45 U.S.C. §§ 51-60 (1982), ceases the moment an employee leaves her work station at the end of a day’s work, even though at the time of her injury she has not left the employer’s premises. The United States District Court for the District of Connecticut, Ellen Bree Burns, Judge, in granting summary judgment to the employer, answered the question in the affirmative, relying on the so-called “commuter cases,” which involved injuries incurred by…