Legal Opinion
Hirsch v. CSX Transportation, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided September 8, 2011No. 09-4548PublishedCited by 48 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
BOGGS, Circuit Judge.
Following a train crash that allegedly exposed a small town to cancer-causing agents, the Plaintiffs-Appellants sought damages on behalf of a putative class. The district court granted summary judgment for the train company, CSX Transportation (CSX), because the Plaintiffs had not established general or specific causation and, as a matter of law, any increased risk of cancer or other diseases was too insignificant to warrant the court’s ordering a lengthy period of medical monitoring. We affirm.
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On October 10, 2007, thirty-one cars of a CSX train derailed and…
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