United States Fifth Circuit

In a wrongful death action, a jury verdict in favor of defendant is affirmed where the magistrate judge did not err in finding that the Federal Railroad Safety Act preempted plaintiff's negligence claims and in refusing to give certain jury instructions.

Appellate Information

• Decided 01/06/2005
• Published 01/06/2005

Judges

• CARL E. STEWART, Circuit Judge:, Before BENAVIDES, STEWART and CLEMENT, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Fifth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Frederick N. Sager, Jr. (argued), Weinberg, Wheeler, Hudgins, Gunn & Dial, Tamara M. Ayres, Scherffius, Ballard, Still & Ayres, Atlanta, GA, Alan D. Lancaster, Liston & Lancaster, Winona, MS, for Plaintiff-Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Raymond L. Brown (argued), Brown Buchanan Sessoms, Pascagoula, MS, Patrick Russell Buchanan, Brown Buchanan Sessoms, Biloxi, MS, for Defendants-Appellees.