Legal Opinion
Union Pacific Railroad v. United States Ex Rel. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
Decided January 5, 2010No. 08-7102PublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HARTZ, Circuit Judge.
On May 23, 2003, a train owned and operated by the Union Pacific Railroad Company derailed when metal culverts beneath the tracks collapsed. The train had been traveling along the shoreline of Lake Eufaula, a man-made lake in eastern Oklahoma created as part of a United States Army Corps of Engineers project (the Project). Construction of the Project had required the relocation of existing railroad tracks and rail facilities belonging to the Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad Company, Union Pacific’s predecessor-in-interest. Under a contract (the Contract) between the…
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