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Byline: KATE NASH The New Mexico Department of Transportation tops the list for spending on legal cases handled through the state Risk Management Division during the past three fiscal years. [...]

Additional sessions judge AZ Khwaja on Wednesday sentenced a train robber, Ramchandra Krushna Bhoi (60) of Sangli, to five years' rigorous imprisonment (RI). A train passenger Rahul Ramchandra Gaikwad (20) [...]

A federal judge has granted Amtrak a preliminary injunction that prevents car parking next to the train tracks beneath a recently redeveloped historic building across from Baltimore's Penn Station. At [...]

PUNE: The Pune railway court, on Wednesday, sentenced a three-member gang, involved in snatching chains of female passengers travelling on long-distance trains, to nine months of rigorous imprisonment (RI) and [...]

The brakeman on the freight train involved in a deadly collision with a Metrolink train filed a lawsuit Friday against the commuter railroad and the companies that provide its engineers. […]

TALLAHASSEE -- Critics of Florida's $650-million deal to launch commuter rail in Orlando have taken a new route. A Tallahassee litigator running for a judgeship sued the Florida Department of [...]

Two successive tugboat collisions with a Susquehanna River railroad bridge on two successive days in 2003 have landed the boat owners and captains in federal court. National Railroad Passenger Corp. [...]

ALBUQUERQUE, NM -- The following information was released by the United States Attorney's Office for the District of New Mexico: Rayvell Vann, 46, of Omaha, Neb., was sentenced this afternoon [...]

TRENTON, NJ -- The following information was released by the office of the Attorney General of New Jersey: Attorney General Jeffrey S. Chiesa announced that a gun trafficker from Newark [...]

Byline: Peter Moreira British papers are like punchdrunk heavyweights -- their blows aren't terribly accurate but you don't want to be on the receiving end when they connect. Just ask [...]

Byline: Peter Moreira and Laura Board LONDON -- A week after the British government placed Railtrack Group plc's railway network in administration -- the British equivalent of receivership -- private [...]

WASHINGTON, DC -- The following information was released by the United States Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia: Michael Jerome Dennis, 27, was sentenced today to a 20-month prison [...]

WASHINGTON, DC -- The following information was released by the Washington Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation: Michael Jerome Dennis, 27, of Washington, D.C., has been indicted by [...]

WASHINGTON, DC -- The following information was released by the United States Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia: Michael Jerome Dennis, 27, of Washington, D.C., has been indicted by [...]

PHILADELPHIA -- The following information was released by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission: Amtrak, the nation's largest rail carrier, will pay $171,483, raise the salary of a female human [...]

London: British Transport Police, UK Government has issued the following press release: A farmer who left his trailer overhanging the railway line, resulting in a collision between his vehicle and [...]

Byline: Jeff Jeffrey WASHINGTON, Sep 28, 2011 (A. M. Best via COMTEX) -- The Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority has filed a $13 million federal lawsuit against Boston-based Lexington Insurance [...]

BUFFALO, NY -- The following information was released by the Buffalo Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation: U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that James Phillips, 48, [...]

Chicago, IL (PRWEB) June 29, 2011 The Chicago law firm of Corboy & Demetrio and through its co-counsel, the Reno law firm of Bradley, Drendel & Jeanney, has filed the [...]

BUFFALO, N.Y. -- The following information was released by the FBI Buffalo field office: U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Christine Seneca, 44, of Irving, New York, [...]

(From McClatchy-Tribune Regional News - Palo Alto Daily News) Byline: Bonnie Eslinger Redwood City's mayor suggested Monday a lawsuit was possible if the state's high-speed rail authority didn't improve communications [...]

The recent decision of the New South Wales Court of Appeal in Rail Corporation New South Wales v Fluor Australia Pty Ltd & Alpcross Pty Ltd [2009] NSWCA 344 provides [...]

CHICAGO -- Late Friday a Cook County, Illinois jury returned a 2.5 million dollar verdict against AMTRAK for not maintaining a safe work environment in an engine at Chicago's Union [...]

Seven black managers at Amtrak sued the passenger railroad today, saying its senior management fostered hostile work conditions and denied them promotions. They were joined by several former black managers, […]

An Amtrak police officer was indicted yesterday by a Federal grand jury in Manhattan on charges that he assaulted a homeless man in Pennsylvania Station in 1995, violating his civil […]

NANCHANG, Nov 24, 2006 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- Life imprisonment for a man who sabotaged a section of railway in South China was confirmed on Friday, when his appeal was […]

NANCHANG, Sept 27, 2006 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- A man who severed the Beijing-Kowloon railway in an attempt to derail a passenger train has been sentenced at a court in […]

WASHINGTON, DC, Nov 03, 2005 (MARKET WIRE via COMTEX) -- The Washington Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights and Urban Affairs, and the law firm of Wiggins, Childs, Quinn & Pantazis, […]

Handing at least a temporary victory to a New York City artist who wants to put up a huge political poster in Pennsylvania Station, the Supreme Court ruled today that […]

Sacramento County Superior Court Judge Richard K. Sueyoshi tentatively ruled against opponents seeking to stop the flow of bond funds to the California High-Speed Rail project. A final decision could [...]

A man was sentenced to more than 16 years in prison today for tampering with a railroad switch and derailing an Amtrak train, injuring more than 70 passengers. Judge Robert […]

In an important recent job discrimination ruling, the Supreme Court resolved a question that had spurred numerous different answers around the country: Can a job-bias claimant recover damages for discriminatory [...]

COUNTRY BRIEFING FROM FINANCIAL TIMES LONDON: Nomura is suing Credit Suisse First Boston for damages of Stg1.2m ($1.75m) in an argument over Railtrack convertible bonds, and their status in credit [...]

In a legal battle pitting freedom of expression against the refusal of a government-subsidized agency to accept political advertising, a Manhattan artist says Amtrak has barred him from turning a […]

NORDIC BUSINESS REPORT-4 April 2002-Vesta takes Norwegian Rail Administration to court (C)1994-2002 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD http://www.m2.com The Norwegian insurance company Vesta has reportedly decided to sue Norway's Rail Administration for [...]

The final offer that Caltrans made to a landowner whose property was the subject of an eminent domain action was unreasonable and, therefore, the landowner is due litigation expenses from [...]

To begin at the end -- Railtrack. The collapse of this company, which owns the UK rail network, was the biggest British business failure since Barings bank went bust six [...]

The EEOC is suing Amtrak for pay discrimination and retaliation, following allegations by a female HR manager at Philadelphia's 30th Street Station that the railroad underpaid her because she is [...]

A Chicago woman is suing the Metra commuter rail system after a toilet splattered its contents on her. A complaint filed by Julianna Mandernach in Cook County Circuit Court in [...]

American Financial Group (AFG) is suing Amtrak to recover $52 million and interest it says it lost by investing in the railroad's stock. The financial services company's lawsuit filed in [...]

The 'push/pull' method of powering commuter trains lies at the heart of a lawsuit that a California appeals court has agreed to hear involving a 2005 fatal Metrolink crash. Dozens [...]

The 'push/pull' method of powering commuter trains lies at the heart of a lawsuit that a California appeals court has agreed to hear involving a Jan. 26, 2005 fatal Metrolink [...]