CSX TRANSPORTATION, INCORPORATED v. GILKISON

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

ARGUED: Dan Himmelfarb , MAYER BROWN, LLP, Washington, D.C., for Appellant.

Walter P. DeForest, III , DEFOREST KOSCELNIK YOKITIS KAPLAN & BERARDINELLI, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, for Appellees.

ON BRIEF: Evan M. Tager , Michael B. Kimberly , MAYER BROWN, LLP, Washington, D.C.; E. Duncan Getchell, Jr. , Samuel L. Tarry, Jr. , Mitchell K. Morris , MCGUIREWOODS LLP, Richmond, Virginia; Marc E. Williams , Robert L. Massie , NELSON MULLINS RILEY & SCARBOROUGH LLP, Huntington, West Virginia, for Appellant.

Robert A. Lockhart , SCHUDA & ASSOCIATES, PLLC, Charleston, West Virginia, David J. Berardinelli , Matthew S. McHale , DEFOREST KOSCELNIK YOKITIS KAPLAN & BERARDINELLI, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, for Appellees Peirce, Raimond & Coulter, PC, Robert N. Peirce, Jr. , Louis A. Raimond , and Mark T. Coulter ; Lawrence S. Goldman , Elizabeth M. Johnson , LAW OFFICES OF LAWRENCE S. GOLDMAN, New York, New York, Jerald E. Jones , WEST & JONES, Clarksburg, West Virginia, Ron Barroso , Corpus Christi, Texas, for Appellee.

Ray A. Harron ; John E. Gompers , GOMPERS, McCARTHY & McCLURE, Wheeling, West Virginia, Stanley W. Greenfield , GREENFIELD & KRAUT, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, for Appellee.

Robert V. Gilkison . David P. Goch , Heidi K. Abegg , WEBSTER CHAMBERLAIN & BEAN, Washington, D.C., for American Society of Radiologic Technologists and Virginia Society of Radiologic Technologists; Ashley C. Parrish , Candice Chiu , KING & SPALDING LLP, Washington, D.C., for American Society of Radiologic Technologists, Amici Supporting Appellant.

Mark A. Behrens , Cary Silverman , SHOOK, HARDY & BACON, LLP, Washington, D.C.; H. Sherman Joyce , AMERICAN TORT REFORM ASSOCIATION, Washington, D.C.; Ann W. Spragens , Sean McMurrough , PROPERTY CASUALTY INSURERS ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA, Des Plaines , Illinois; Quentin Riegel, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF MANUFACTURERS, Washington, D.C.; Daniel Saphire , ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN RAILROADS, Washington, D.C., for American Tort Reform Association, Association of American Railroads, Coalition for Litigation Justice, Incorporated, National Association of Manufacturers, and Property Casualty Insurers Association of America, Amici Supporting Appellant.

David Craig Landin , Cheryl G. Ragsdale , HUNTON & WILLIAMS LLP, Richmond, Virginia, for Daniel E. Banks , Alfred Franzblau , and Lawrence Martin, Amici Supporting Appellant.

Daniel J. Popeo , Richard A. Samp , WASHINGTON LEGAL FOUNDATION, Washington, D.C., for Washington Legal Foundation, Amicus Supporting Appellant. Scott L. Winkelman , Michael L. Martinez , Robert L. Willmore , Jennifer G. Knight , CROWELL & MORING LLP, Washington, D.C., for West Virginia Chamber of Commerce, Amicus Supporting Appellant.

Affirmed in part, vacated in part, and remanded by unpublished per curiam opinion. Judge Davis wrote a separate concurring opinion.