CSX Transportation, Inc. v. Miller

CHARLES E. MOYLAN, JR., Judge,

retired, specially assigned.

The A, B, C’s of Where We Are

This appeal is from a plaintiffs verdict in a Federal Employers’ Liability Act (“FELA”) case. That statement may be self-explanatory to the small handful of practitioners who labor regularly, or even occasionally, in that very specialized vineyard. One strongly suspects, however, that many who speak of FELA law with breezy familiarity are only whistling past the graveyard. To the more modest vast majority of the bar (and the bench), a FELA case is essentially, if not totally, terra incognita. 1 For those…