Legal Opinion
James R. Dorsey v. Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Company, a Corporation
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Decided April 5, 1973No. 72-1324PublishedCited by 17 opinions
1Per curiam
James R. Dorsey appeals from an order of the district court granting defendants’ motion for summary judgment. Defendant railroad discharged him as a conductor on November 13, 1969 after a company Board of Inquiry found that he had violated a rule prohibiting the use of intoxicants by employees while on company property.
In his complaint, Dorsey claimed that his discharge violated the terms of his employment contract and deprived him of his employment and property without due process of law; that defendant railroad and the other named defendants conspired to so discharge him; and that such…
2Cases cited7 opinions
- Andrews v. Louisville & Nashville RailroadSupreme Court of the United States · 1972
- Moore v. Illinois Central RailroadSupreme Court of the United States · 1941
- Union Pacific Railroad v. PriceSupreme Court of the United States · 1959
- Tage E. Pearson v. Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company, an Ohio CorporationCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1964
- Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen v. The New York Central Railroad CompanyCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1957
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3Cited by17 opinions
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- Richard Kaschak v. Consolidated Rail CorporationCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1983
- Carson v. Southern Railway Co.District Court, D. South Carolina · 1979
- Robert E. Minehart v. Louisville & Nashville Railroad Co.Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1984
- Jerome HARRIS, Appellant, v. NORFOLK & WESTERN RAILWAY COMPANY, AppelleeCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1980
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