CSX TRANSPORTATION v. PITTS

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Andrew E. Tauber ( Evan M. Tager , Carl J. Summers , Paul W. Hughes of Mayer Brown LLP, Washington, DC; Mitchell Y. Mirviss of Venable LLP, Baltimore, MD; C. Stephen Setliff of Setliff & Holland, PC, Annapolis, MD), on brief, for petitioner.

P. Matthew Darby and H. David Leibensperger of Berman, Sobin, Gross, Feldman & Darby LLP, Towson, MD; C. Richard Cranwell of Cranwell, Moore & Emick, PLC, Roanoke, VA, on brief, for respondent.

Louis P. Warchot , Daniel Saphire, Association of American Railroads, Washington, DC, James W. Constable , Wright, Constable & Skeen, L.L.P., Baltimore, MD, for amicus curiae brief of the Association of American Railroads in Support of Petitioner.

Lawrence M. Mann , Alper & Mann, PC, Bethesda, MD, for amici curiae brief of Rail Labor Division of the Transportation Trades Department, AFL-CIO, and the Rail Conference of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters.

Argued before BELL, C.J., HARRELL, BATTAGLIA, GREENE, ADKINS, BARBERA and McDONALD, JJ.