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Your query Federal Employers Liability Act returned 25 results.

1000 EASTERN ENTERPRISES V. APFEL, 524 U.S. 498 (1998)
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745 MUSICK, PEELER & GARRETT V. EMPLOYERS INS. OF WAUSAU, 508 U.S. 286 (1993).
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732 MEYER V. HOLLEY
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The Fair Housing Act imposes liability without fault upon a corporate employer in accordance with traditional agency principles, i.e., it normally imposes vicarious liability upon the corporation but not upon its officers or owners.
714 KOLSTAD V. AMERICAN DENTAL ASSN.
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692 CENTRAL BANK OF DENVER V. FIRST INTERSTATE BANK OF DENVER, 114 S. CT. 1439, (1994)
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675 BURLINGTON INDUSTRIES, INC. V. ELLERTH, 524 U.S. 742 (1998)
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644 CONCRETE PIPE & PRODUCTS OF CAL. V. CONSTRUCTION LABORERS PENSION TRUST, 508 U.S. 602 (1993)
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618 NORFOLK & WESTERN R. CO. V. AYERS
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Mental anguish damages resulting from the fear of developing cancer may be recovered under the Federal Employers' Liability Act by a railroad worker suffering from the actionable injury asbestosis caused by work-related exposure to asbestos; the FELA's express terms, reinforced by consistent judicial applications of the Act, allow such a worker to recover his entire damages from a railroad whose negligence jointly caused his injury, thus placing on the railroad the burden of seeking contribution from other potential tortfeasors.
609 LIVADAS V. BRADSHAW, 512 U.S. 107 (1994).
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583 CONSOLIDATED RAIL CORP. V. GOTTSHALL, 114 S. CT. 2396, 129 L. ED. 2D 427 (1994)
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570 PENNSYLVANIA STATE POLICE V. SUDERS
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When a hostile work environment created by a supervisor culminates in a constructive discharge, may the employer assert an affirmative defense?
565 LANDGRAF V. USI FILM PRODS., 511 U.S. 244 (1994).
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548 BARNHART V. PEABODY COAL CO.
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Although the Coal Industry Retiree Health Benefit Act of 1992 provides that the Commissioner of Social Security "shall, before October 1, 1993," assign each coal industry retiree eligible for benefits to an extant operator or related entity, initial assignments made after that date are valid despite their untimeliness.
499 BE&K CONSTR. CO. V. NLRB
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Respondent National Labor Relations Board lacked authority to find that petitioner violated federal labor law by prosecuting against respondent unions an unsuccessful lawsuit with a retaliatory motive.
495 HOWARD DELIVERY SERVICE, INC. V. ZURICH AMERICAN INS. CO.
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495 UNITED STATES V. FIOR D’ITALIA, INC.
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In assessing a restaurant for Federal Insurance Contribution Act taxes based upon tips that its employees may have received but did not report, the Internal Revenue Service is authorized to use an aggregate estimate of all tips that the restaurant's customers paid its employees.
495 COLLEGE SAVINGS BANK V. FLORIDA PREPAIDPOSTSECONDARY ED. EXPENSE BD.
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486 CIRCUIT CITY STORES, INC. V. ADAMS
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Section 1 of the Federal Arbitration Act-which excludes from that Act's coverage "contracts of employment of seamen, railroad employees, or any other class of workers engaged in foreign or interstate commerce"-exempts the employment contracts of transportation workers, but not other employment contracts.
478 BROWN V. PRO FOOTBALL, INC.., 518 U.S. 231 (1996)
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464 HESS V. PORT AUTH.. TRANS-HUDSON CORP., 115 S. CT. 394, 130 L. ED. 2D 245 (1994)
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451 METRO NORTH COMMUTER RAILROAD CO. V. BUCKLEY, 521 U.S. 424 (1997)
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442 BURLINGTON N. & S. F. R. CO. V. WHITE
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342 EDELMAN V. LYNCHBURG COLLEGE
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An Equal Employment Opportunity Commission regulation permitting an otherwise timely filer of a charge alleging job discrimination in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to verify the charge after the time for filing it has expired is an unassailable interpretation of §706 of that Act and is therefore valid.
302 BURLINGTON NORTHERN R. V. FORD, 504 U.S. 648 (1992).
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302 NORFOLK SOUTHERN R. CO. V. SORRELL
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