Legal Opinion
Walker v. CSX Transportation, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided August 22, 2011No. 10-14136PublishedCited by 14 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
TJOFLAT, Circuit Judge:
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This negligence suit under Georgia law stems from an injury Roland Walker suffered as he unloaded freight from a railcar in July 2005. At that time, Walker worked for Exel, Inc., the operator of a shipping and receiving facility in Fairburn, Georgia, 1 which exclusively receives deliveries of food products from Unilever Bestfoods of North America (“Unilever”) on behalf of local Fairburn businesses. On July 22, the railcar arrived at Exel loaded with fifty-six pallets of containers of Unilever-produced mayonnaise that Unilever had loaded and shipped from its Chicago…
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