Legal Opinion
Johnson v. Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority
District Court, District of Columbia
Decided December 20, 1991No. Civ. A. No. 86-3110-LFOPublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM
OBERDORFER, District Judge.
I
Plaintiffs’ decedent died when she jumped from a subway platform into the path of an approaching WMATA train which struck and killed her. On the theory that undisputed evidence established that the train was so close to decedent when she jumped that no effort by an operator could have avoided the fatal strike, this court granted defendant’s motion for summary judgment despite evidence that the operator had tested positive for drug use. A panel of the Court of Appeals reversed that judgment and remanded the case. Johnson v. Washington Metro. Area Transit…
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