Legal Opinion
Myers v. Missouri Pacific Railroad
Supreme Court of Oklahoma
Decided July 2, 2002No. 93,313PublishedCited by 95 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtOpala, J.
' 1 The dispositive issues tendered on cer-tiorari are (1) does federal law preempt plaintiffs' state-tort-law theory that the railroad provided inadequate warning devices at the grade crossing in question? and (2) does federal law preempt plaintiffs' state-tort-law theory that the train was traveling at an excessive speed at the time of the collision? We answer both of these questions in the affirmative and then consider other questions that, though raised by plaintiffs' appeal, were left undecided by the intermediate appellate court's opinion.
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