City of Marietta v. Csx Transportation, Inc.

This is our second opinion in this appeal in which the City of Marietta seeks to reverse summary judgment in favor of CSX Transportation on the City’s claims arising from CSX’s closure of two pedestrian railroad crossings. See City of Marietta v. CSX Transp., 196 F.3d 1300 (11th Cir.1999). In the first opinion, we asked the Georgia Supreme Court whether “the public [can] acquire a right against the State of Georgia, and hence against its lessee CSX, to use the crossings at Depot and Dobbs Streets, such that the streets may not be closed without Marietta’s consent?” Id. at 1309.

The Georgia…