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Article: Railroad companies file suit against West Virginia Supreme Court
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- The State Journal
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- December 10, 2001
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CHARLESTON - Three eastern railroad companies and the Ohiobased insurance company that serves them filed a lawsuit against the justices of the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals last week.
The suit challenges the establishment of the Mass Litigation Panel, which consolidates asbestos-related civil cases against railroads and other companies under the Federal Employer's Liability Act.
CSX Transportation in Florida, Norfolk Southern Railroad in Virginia and Conrail in Pennsylvania, along with American Premier Underwriters, filed the suit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia, seeking to invalidate West Virginia Trial Court Rule 26.01, which authorized mass ...