Legal Opinion
Joshua Nye and Judy Ramirez v. Csx Transportation, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided February 14, 2006No. 05-3136PublishedCited by 50 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
SILER, Circuit Judge.
' Plaintiff Joshua Nye was injured as a passenger of a car that collided with a train. Nye and his mother, Judy Ramirez (collectively referred to as “Nye”), sued railroad operator CSX Transportation, Inc. (“CSXT”), for negligently causing personal injury. Specifically, Nye brought various claims for negligence, spoliation of evidence, loss of consortium, and punitive damages.
Nye presents three overarching questions for this court to decide: (1) whether his adequacy of warning device claim is preempted by federal law, (2) whether summary judgment was proper on his…
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