High Court Upholds Exclusion of Worker's Evidence in FELA Claim

The Missouri Supreme Court upheld a judge's decision to exclude evidence on a railway's storage practices for "end-of-train devices" from a trial on a railway worker's Federal Employers' Liability Act claim since this evidence was not relevant to the employee's argument that the railway had failed to provide him with safe work methods or conditions for moving the devices.Case: Lozano v. BNSF Railway Co., No. SC92996, 02/04/2014, published.Facts: Rafael Lozano worked for the BNSF Railway Co. for 33 years, spending 29 of them as an electrician.His job involved inspecting loco...