SCHNEIDER v. NATIONAL R.R. PASSENGER CORP.

No. 785, Docket 87-7971.

854 F.2d 14 (1988)

Dolores SCHNEIDER, Appellant, v. NATIONAL RAILROAD PASSENGER CORP., Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided August 9, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles C. Goetsch, New Haven, Conn. (Cahill, Goetsch & DiPersia, P.C., of counsel), for appellant.

Sally S. King, Hartford, Conn. (Robinson & Cole, of counsel), for appellee.

Before OAKES and NEWMAN, Circuit Judges, and KEENAN, District Judge.


OAKES, Circuit Judge:

This appeal presents us with the question whether employment, for purposes of the Federal Employers' Liability Act ("FELA"), 45 U.S.C. §§ 51-60 (1982), ceases the moment an employee leaves her work station at the end of a day's work, even though at the time of her injury she has not left the employer's premises. The United States District Court for the District of Connecticut, Ellen Bree Burns, Judge, in granting summary judgment to...

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