FELA: Railroad employee’s state law bad faith claims not preempted by FELA… Bidegaray affirmed. [Read more…]
$697,671.45 verdict, cattle damages, oil wellsite fence
VERDICT: $697,671.45 after present-value reduction, cattle damages and emotional distress, illegal fence around oil wellsite, failure to maintain fence. [Read more…]
Discovery, bad faith following $1.7 million FELA verdict
DISCOVERY: Supervisory control of Bidegaray denied on liability/causation sanctions default in bad faith case following $1.7 million FELA verdict… Court declines to revisit FELA preemption issue… order. [Read more…]