NORFOLK SOUTHERN RY. CO. v. HARTRY

S19G0008.

837 S.E.2d 303 (2019)

NORFOLK SOUTHERN RAILWAY CO. v. HARTRY et al.

Supreme Court of Georgia.

Decided: December 23, 2019.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Eileen M. Crowley , Hall, Bloch, Garland & Meyer, LLP, 900 Circle 75 Parkway, Suite 500, Atlanta, Georgia 30339-3099, Laurie Webb Daniel , Matthew D. Friedlander , Holland & Knight, LLP, Suite 2000, One Atlantic Center, 1180 West Peachtree Street, Suite 1800, Atlanta, Georgia 30309-3400, Amanda Rodman Smith , Hall, Bloch, Garland & Meyer, LLP, P.O. Box 5088, Macon, Georgia 31208-5088, Virginia A. Seitz , Tobias S. Loss-Eaton , Raymond A. Atkins , Sidley Austin, LLP, 1501 K Street, NW, Washington, DC 20005, for Appellant.

Michael J. Warshauer , Trent Scott Shuping , Lyle Griffin Warshauer , Warshauer Law Group, P.C., 2740 Bert Adams Road, Atlanta, Georgia 30339, Richard Crawford Foster , Elizabeth Lynn Bentley , Carlock Copeland & Stair LLP, 191 Peachtree Street NE, Suite 3600, Atlanta, Georgia 30303, Frank Mitchell Lowrey, IV , Michael Rosen Baumrind , Bondurant, Mixson & Elmore, LLP, 1201 West Peachtree Street, N.W., Suite 3900, Atlanta, Georgia 30309-3417, for Appellee.

Christopher Randall Jordan , Hunter Maclean Exley & Dunn, 777 Gloucester St., Suite 400, Brunswick, Georgia 31520, Kathryn D. Kirmayer , Daniel Saphire , Association of American Railroads, 425 3rd Street, S.W., Washington, DC 20024, for Amicus Appellant.

Frank T. Burge, Sr. , Burge & Burge, P.C., 2001 Park Place, Suite 1350, Birmingham, Alabama 35203-3204, Lawrence M. Mann , Alpers & Mann, PC, 9205 Redwood Ave., Bethesda, Maryland 20817, for Amicus Appellee.


We granted certiorari in this case to consider whether Winford Hartry's claim under the Federal Employers' Liability Act ("FELA"), 45 USC § 51 et seq., is precluded by regulations issued pursuant to the Federal Railroad Safety Act ("FRSA"), 49 USC § 20101 et seq. Because we conclude that FRSA and its regulations do not...

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