Legal Opinion
Pikop v. Burlington Northern Railroad
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Decided August 1, 1986No. C7-84-1333, C4-85-1431PublishedCited by 30 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SCOTT, Justice.
Virginia Pikop and Romesh Gulati are former employees of Burlington Northern Railroad Company (Burlington Northern), who individually filed suit against the railroad in state court, claiming intentional infliction of emotional distress. Burlington Northern contends that both suits are preempted by the Railway Labor Act (RLA), 45 U.S.C. §§ 151-63 (1982), and/or the Federal Employers’ Liability Act (FELA), 45 U.S.C. §§ 51-60 (1982). We conclude that the two federal acts do not preempt state-court jurisdiction over a former railway employee’s claim of intentional infliction of…
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