Legal Opinion
Union Pacific Railroad Company v. Plano Molding Company
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided March 31, 2015No. 14-1171, 14-1189PublishedCited by 16 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
FLAUM, Circuit Judge.
On April 21, 2005, a Union Pacific freight train derailed in Oklahoma. The train was carrying two steel injection molds being delivered to Plano Molding Company in Illinois. The derailment occurred after the molds broke through the floor of their shipping container, causing that train car and many behind it to derail and resulting in approximately $4 million in total damage. The molds had been manufactured in China and shipped to the United States before being transferred to the Union Pacific train for the final leg of their journey.
At issue in this case is the reason…
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