United States Sixth Circuit

Because federal regulations substantially subsume the subject matter of a Michigan statute that prohibits trains from continuously blocking grade crossings for more than five minutes, the state statute is preempted by the Federal Railroad Safety Act.

Appellate Information

• Argued 01/30/2002
• Decided 03/21/2002
• Published 03/21/2002

Judges

• Before RYAN and GILMAN, Circuit Judges;  POLSTER, District Judge.

Court

• United States Sixth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Michael D. Eagen (briefed), Dinsmore & Shohl, Cincinnati, OH, for Ass'n of American R.R. Amicus Curiae


• For Appellees:
  
• George F. Pappas (argued and briefed), Vicki Margolis (briefed), Mitchell Y. Mirviss (briefed), Kevin B. Collins (briefed), Venable, Baejter & Howard, Baltimore, MD, Jack O. Kalmink (briefed), Clark Hill, Detroit, MI, for Plaintiff-Appellee., Thomas L. Casey (briefed), Office of Attorney General, Appellate Division, Lansing, MI, Michael G. Frezza (argued and briefed), Assistant Attorney General, Detroit, MI, for Defendant-Appellant.