Two Iowa women filed a pair of lawsuits blaming Canadian National Railway Company and two U.S. subsidiaries for severe injuries they suffered last year while climbing through a stopped train to cross the tracks.
Read moreA powerful French union is vowing to push ahead with strikes that have hobbled nationwide train services, even as signs of a possible compromise emerged in talks with President Emmanuel Macron’s government.
Read moreRail workers set up street protests across France on Thursday as they resumed their rolling strike against President Emmanuel Macron’s plans to revamp the national railway company SNCF.
Read moreA federal antitrust class action claims Knorr-Bremse/Knorr Brake Co. and Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies Corp., two of the world’s largest rail-equipment suppliers, conspired in an “anti-poaching” agreement, decreasing wages and work opportunities.
Read moreA major French railway strike brought the country’s famed high-speed trains to a halt Tuesday, leaving passengers stranded or scrambling for other options — and posing the biggest test so far for President Emmanuel Macron’s economic strategy.
Read moreA federal judge ruled that descendants of Holocaust victims accusing France’s national railway of looting property from tens of thousands of Jews bound for concentration camps must bring their case before a French commission before suing in U.S. court.
Read moreSlovenia’s prime minister said Wednesday he is resigning after the country’s top court annulled last year’s referendum on a key railway project and ordered a new vote.
Read moreOpponents of the nation’s only privately-funded passenger rail service sued federal transportation officials this week, seeking to derail an expansion of the project linking West Palm Beach to Orlando.
Read moreThe Ninth Circuit revived counterclaims Tuesday by Union Pacific Railroad, whose power to lease land under 1,800 miles of its right of way for a petroleum pipeline is being challenged in multiple class actions.
Read moreA lack of required testing for a pernicious sleep disorder was the primary cause of two serious train crashes in New Jersey and New York, federal investigators concluded in a report Tuesday as they renewed the call for the testing to be mandatory.
Read moreAttorneys for a developer fighting to export coal from Oakland, California, tried to convince a judge Friday that city officials fudged a key scientific report to justify enacting a coal-handling ban in the city.
Read moreDevelopers of a railyard project near the Port of Los Angeles did not consider air quality impacts in its environmental report, a California appeals court ruled Friday.
Read moreThe Supreme Court agreed Friday to decide whether money earned by a railroad employee’s exercise of stock options should be treated as employee compensation for purposes of paying payroll taxes.
Read moreThe California High-Speed Rail Authority punted one of the most important decisions during its monthly meeting Thursday, stoking concerns the entity is not moving quickly enough on the project.
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Amtrak and other railroad companies are subject to California labor laws that allow employees paid sick time to care for family illnesses or domestic violence matters, a federal judge clarified Tuesday.
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An Amtrak engineer whose high-speed operation of a commuter train caused a deadly derailment in 2015 should not face criminal charges, a Philadelphia judge ruled Tuesday.
Read moreIn a win for two railroad giants accused of collusion by billionaire William Koch’s coal company, a federal judge ordered Koch to produce records, rejecting the argument that doing so would be costly and irrelevant.
Read moreA Ninth Circuit panel signaled Tuesday it may affirm a preliminary injunction that bars California from levying a fee on trains carrying hazardous materials designed to reimburse the state for rail accidents.
Read moreIn a ruling with implications for the future of high-speed rail in California, the state’s highest court ruled that while federal laws governing transportation trump state environmental laws for the most part, there are still areas where those state laws can prevail.
Read moreA federal judge has dismissed a bid to keep oil and gas from being transported by rail through the Washington state city of Spokane, finding residents didn’t exhaust their options before filing their lawsuit.
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