United States Sixth Circuit

Where no Federal Railway Administration regulation or action covers the minimum track clearance, a state track safety regulation can be a permissible gap filler in the federal rail safety scheme.

Appellate Information

• Argued 01/31/2001
• Decided 04/25/2001
• Published 04/25/2001

Judges

• Before NORRIS, SILER, and BRIGHT, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Sixth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Frank E. Van Bree (briefed), James L. Farina (briefed), Hoey, Farina & Downes, Chicago, IL, Steven P. Garmisa (briefed), James K. Genden (argued and briefed), Torshen, Spreyer, Garmisa & Slobig, Chicago, IL, for Plaintiff-Appellant., Michael E. Robinson (argued and briefed), U.S. Dept. of Justice, Civ. Div., App. Staff, Washington, DC, for Amicus Curiae United States., Evelyn G. Kitay (argued and briefed), Surface Transportation Bd., Washington, DC, for Amicus Curiae Surface Transportation Bd., James Lacey O'Connell (briefed), Lindhorst & Dreidame, Cincinnati, OH, for Amicus Curiae The Ass'n of American Railroads.


• For Appellees:
  
• Thomas J. Antonini (briefed), James R. Knepp, II (argued and briefed), Robison, Curphey & O'Connell, Toledo, OH, Jack Zouhary, S.E. Johnson Companies, Inc., Maumee, OH, for Defendant-Appellee.