Legal Opinion
Ricky Edwards v. CSX Transportation Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided May 6, 2016No. 15-5385PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
SUTTON, Circuit Judge.
Federal law regulates the bathrooms of trains. Invoking the relevant statutes and regulations, Ricky Edwards, a train engineer, claims that CSX Transportation owes him damages because an unsanitary locomotive toilet led to a career-ending injury. The engineer overreads the relevant provisions. While they require CSX to have such toilets and to clean them orice a day, they do not require railroad companies to ensure that the toilets are clean at any given moment between inspections. Because CSX met the relevant requirements and because Edwards has abandoned any…
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