Legal Opinion
Mark S. Mounts v. Grand Trunk Western Railroad
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided January 5, 2000No. 99-3151PublishedCited by 41 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
COLE, Circuit Judge.
The sole issue on appeal is whether Mark S. Mounts, a lifetime railroad employee who can no longer hold his job because of hearing loss, filed suit against his former employer within the three-year statute of limitations of the Federal Employers’ Liability Act (“FELA”), 45 U.S.C. § 51 et seq. We find that he did not, and therefore AFFIRM the district court’s grant of summary judgment for the defendant employer, Grand Trunk Western Railroad.
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Mounts is a 51-year-old man who has been a railroad employee all his career. After working as a brakeman for the New York…
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