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6 Dec 2016, 4:08 am by Jon Gelman
In 1918, the court overturned a law prohibiting child labor on similar grounds and additionally held that the effects of child labor did not have enough of an impact on interstate commerce to justify regulation.The Supreme Court did uphold the constitutionality of workers’ compensation laws in the case of New York Central Railroad v. [read post]
28 Oct 2015, 4:35 am by David DePaolo
There are state supreme courts reviewing the fairness equation right now, but the standard for review will be the standard espoused by the US Supreme Court in 1917 when America's highest court held compulsory work comp was constitutional.So long as comp provided a "reasonably just substitute" to a tort claim, the US Supreme Court ruled in New York Central Railroad Co. v. [read post]
16 Jan 2014, 11:08 pm by Timothy Sandefur, guest-blogging
Walters, a railroad company challenged the constitutionality of a Tennessee law that imposed various costs related to railway crossings, and the trial court engaged in extensive fact-finding before striking down the statute as irrational. [read post]
12 Dec 2011, 10:50 am by Marcia Narine
A discussion of the history of corporate criminal liability would be too detailed for this post, but in its most simplistic form, ever since the 1909 case of New York Central & Hudson River Railroad Co v. [read post]
17 Nov 2011, 2:47 pm by Daniel Richardson
Rutland & Burlington Railroad Company, 27 Vt. 140 (1854) (the granddaddy of all police power decisions); Ploof v. [read post]
6 May 2011, 3:46 pm by Jon L. Gelman
Paul Morgan controlled several banks, Western Union, the Pullman Car Company, Aetna Life Insurance, General Electric and 2-1 railroad companies. [read post]
10 May 2010, 1:16 pm by admin
Under the settlement, the railroad will pay a civil penalty of $3,967,500 for the alleged CWA violations, which included the discharge of tons of chlorine from a derailed train tank car and thousands of gallons of diesel fuel from ruptured locomotive engine fuel tanks. [read post]
20 Apr 2010, 2:37 pm by Adam Thierer
 David Walker Howe, author of the magisterial history, What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848, details the history of the Postal Service in the early Republic and its central importance (until the invention of the telegraph) as the country’s primary information distribution system. [read post]
18 Mar 2010, 1:21 am
Jury Finds Plaintiffs Lawyers Defrauded Railroad in Asbestos Suit Corporate Counsel When a federal jury returned a verdict against two Mississippi plaintiffs lawyers, finding they had committed fraud against Illinois Central Railroad, it was the culmination of the railroad's seven-year battle against abusive asbestos claims. [read post]