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042053P.pdf   08/02/2005  Larry Hill  v.  Burlington Northern
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  04-2053
   District of Nebraska   
   [PUBLISHED] [Wollman. Author, with Bye and Colloton, Circuit 
   Judges] 
   Civil case - torts. Plaintiffs' claims that defendant negligently 
   inspected rail cars was preempted by the Federal Railroad 
   Administration's regulations; district court did not err in applying conflict 
   of laws principles in determining plaintiffs' state law claims were 
   governed by Nebraska law; district court did not err in dismissing 
   plaintiffs' state law claims for strict liability and negligence per se 
   because Nebraska state law does not recognize violations of a regulation 
   or statute as negligence per se, and Nebraska has not yet adopted a cause 
   of action of strict liability for ultrahazardous or abnormally dangerous 
   activities and would not do so on this set of facts.