GUIDROZ-BRAULT v. MISSOURI PACIFIC R. CO.

No. 99-16458.

254 F.3d 825 (2001)

Lori GUIDROZ-BRAULT; Frederick Brault; Joyce Matthews; Brynn C. Matthews; Wendy Stoddard, individually, and as Representative of the Class of those similarly situated, and as parent of Sean Stoddard and Dustin Stoddard, minor, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. MISSOURI PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY; United Pacific Railroad Company, a Delaware corporation; Southern Pacific Transportation Company, aka Southern Pacific Transportation Company; National Railroad Passenger Corporation, dba Amtrak, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed June 18, 2001.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James P. Watts, Zimmerman Reed, Minneapolis, Minnesota, for the plaintiffs-appellants.

William L. Thorpe, Mark H. Brain, Fennemore Craig, Phoenix, Arizona, for the defendants-appellees.

Before: ALFRED T. GOODWIN, PROCTER HUG, JR., and WILLIAM A. FLETCHER, Circuit Judges.


GOODWIN, Circuit Judge:

Passengers who suffered injuries in a train wreck appeal the summary judgment that terminated their action. The first question is whether the trial court erred in deciding that defendant National Passenger Railroad Corporation (commonly known as "Amtrak") was not negligent, as a matter of law, because the criminal act of sabotage in creating a defect in the rail was an unforeseeable intervening, superseding act, and the sole cause of the train...

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