SOO LINE RAILROAD CO. v. CONSOLIDATED RAIL CORP.

No. 19-3100.

965 F.3d 596 (2020)

SOO LINE RAILROAD COMPANY d/b/a Canadian Pacific, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. CONSOLIDATED RAIL CORPORATION, et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided July 15, 2020.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Andrew W. Davis , Benjamin D. Eastburn , Attorney, Stinson LLP, Minneapolis, MN, David C. Jensen , Attorney, Eichhorn & Eichhorn, LLP, Hammond, IN, Douglas R. Dalgleish , Attorney, Stinson LLP, Kansas City, MO, David F. Rifkind, Esq. , Attorney, Stinson LLP, Washington, DC, for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Chad M. Clamage , Attorney, Mayer Brown LLP, Chicago, IL, Evan M. Tager , Attorney, Mayer Brown LLP, Washington, DC, for Defendant-Appellee Consolidated Rail Corporation.

A. Richard Musgrove Blaiklock , Attorney, Lewis Wagner, LLP, Indianapolis, IN, for Defendant-Appellee CSX Transportation, Inc.

Lawrence Adelson , Chico & Nunes, P.C., Chicago, IL, for Defendant-Appellee Indiana Harbor Belt Railroad Company.

Theodore R. Boehm , Attorney, Kenneth J. Munson , Attorney, Hoover Hull Turner LLC, Indianapolis, IN, for Defendant-Appellee Norfolk Southern Railway Company.

Nancy J. Townsend , Attorney, Krieg Devault LLP, Broadway Merrillville, IN, for Defendant-Appellee John Hart.

Before Sykes, Chief Judge, and Bauer And St. Eve, Circuit Judges.


Soo Line Railroad Company, which we refer to by its business name, Canadian Pacific, sought to bring state-law claims under the diversity jurisdiction of the district court. Its suit centered on a trackage rights agreement—a contract governing one railroad's use of another's track—that the Indiana Harbor Belt...

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