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073002P.pdf 12/01/2008 Jeffrey Bates v. Missouri & Northern Ark RR
U.S. Court of Appeals Case No: 07-3002
U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri - Joplin
[PUBLISHED] [Wollman, Author, with Beam and Riley, Circuit Judges]
Civil case - torts. Railroad's arguments that plaintiff's personal injury
claims were preempted by the Federal Railroad Safety Act was foreclosed
by recent amendments to the Act and this court's decision in Lundeen v.
Canadian Pacific Railway, 532 F.3d 682 (8th Cir. 2008); as a result, the
district court did not err in remanding the case to state court.