Railroad Case Studies Samples For Students

1) On the 12th of September 2 trains collided. The engineer of the train 111 was Robert M. Sanchez who from the early age was interested in this sphere. He did his best to fulfill his dream, he got hired to Metrolink, but on the 12th of September in 2008 he had his last commute route. There are some causes of the Metrolink accident.Sanchez was inattentive (before he had received several discipline letters for not following the rules). He wasn’t supposed to use his cell phone at work but he did (Sanchez texted to one teenager who was a ...

Introduction

Erie Railroad v Tompkins was a fairly simple case in which the Supreme Court was called upon to give an interpretation as to the application of state common law over federal common law in cases of diversity jurisdiction. In addition, the case is celebrated for its empowerment of the state common law as it clearly denied Congress the power to set federal common law, an action it perceived as unconstitutional.

Federal Court’s obligation to state court decisions prior to Erie Railroad v Tompkins

Before the decision in Erie, federal courts enjoyed the discretion as to whether to follow decisions from the state courts or not. Despite issues falling under diversity jurisdiction necessitating the ...

Introduction

Erie Railroad v Tompkins was a fairly simple case in which the Supreme Court was called upon to give an interpretation as to the application of state common law over federal common law in cases of diversity jurisdiction. In addition, the case is celebrated for its empowerment of the state common law as it clearly denied Congress the power to set federal common law, an action it perceived as unconstitutional.

Federal Court’s obligation to state court decisions prior to Erie Railroad v Tompkins

Before the decision in Erie, federal courts enjoyed the discretion as to whether to follow decisions from the state courts or not. Despite issues falling under diversity jurisdiction necessitating the ...

The NOGO Railroad Case Study

Overview
A close look at the case reveals a shoddy and archaic organizational culture at NOGO Railroad rife with negative practices such as nepotism and feather bedding being actively practiced as part of the legacy of the rail industry, shaping up the currently rigid and change-averse attitude of the employees. This is substantiated by the findings of a research study conducted in Malaysia “showing an association between organizational culture and the affective, cognitive, and behavioral tendency of attitudes towards organizational change, and that these acceptance levels of change vary with different types of organizational cultures, some of which facilitate change, ...

Introduction

In the modern world, genetic testing at workplace is slowly trending towards becoming a controversial issue. Well from one perspective, genetic testing is perceived to be beneficial (Howard, 2011). For instance, through genetic testing organizations are able to determine side effects and illnesses in employees that might result from chemical exposure. However, there is still fear related to the testing outcome. In many articles that have previously researched on this topic, the utilitarian perspective seems to be supported. From this perspective, gene testing is highly disqualified as an invalid method of determining the hereditary diseases. Hence, gene testing has been ...

Disasters most commonly elicit the response of city, local, state, and federal aid agencies to meet the mitigation of destruction during various phases of an emergency event. Public health legal authority, during a hazardous substance discharge, may call for both public and private agency involvement. Thrusting personnel and materials in the area must operate under the auspices of inter-jurisdictional protocol and legal authority. The objectives in this written exercise are to alert the learner, in anticipation of future professional behavior, about gaining an understanding for legal protocols in public health/hazardous emergencies while maintaining the highest levels of public safety during a ...

1. For designing a decision support system, Noreen Wasserman has to gather the entire available data regarding the operations system of Burlington from the existent reports, surveys, industry information about competition, field data from the company’s agents, or other employees working directly with the customers, from the customers themselves and also from the competitors. There are three important stakeholders that should be assessed in this case, for gathering the needed information for proposing an efficient decision support system: the internal stakeholders (employees), and the external ones: customers and competitors. Yet, just as important, the business partners represent a key stakeholder ...

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The Labatt brewery was a well-established brewery in Ontaria, Canada, owned by John Labatt. The case study discusses Labatt’s expansion into Chicago, USA and consequently his retreat. In the first part of the case we discuss the various factors which led to Labatt’s decision to make an entry into the US market. The major push factor responsible for this decision was the incessant price-cutting of beer in the Canadian market which led to declining profits for Labatt. The major pull factors for Labatt were the market size in America and the potential profits & prestige ...

Historians affirm that Thomas Garrett is one of the prominent personalities who took an active role in the development of Underground Railroad. He was born on 21 August 1790 at Upper Darby Pennsylvania and died on 25 January 1817. Throughout his lifetime and career as a stationmaster, Thomas worked as an abolitionist and helped more than three thousand slaves escape; an idea that compelled others credit him as Delaware greatest savior (Heinrichs, 56).
The venture of helping slaves originated from his up bring as White Quaker son, where he learnt to help and assist runway slaves. His family owned a ...

Union Pacific Corporation

Union Pacific Corporation is an American holding organization with the leading subsidiary in railway industry, Union Pacific Railroad Company. Established in 1862, the company has occupied 168th position in Forbes 2000 ranking and 86th position in Forbes ranking of market value in 2015 with market capitalization of almost USD 94 billion. Additionally, the Railroad’s expanded operation mix consists of Agricultural Products, Automobile, Chemicals, Coal, Industrial Products and Intermodal (Forbes, 2015). Union Pacific Corporation’s major subsidiaries include Insight Network Logistics (automobile logistics amenities and technology distributor focusing on wide-ranging vehicle supply schemes), PS Technology, Inc. (company’s staff ...

According to Mendel (653), the phenomenon of homelessness in a affluent society and actions of business leaders in Cleveland to address it provides the starting point of Daniel Kerr’s Homelessness and Urban Development in Cleveland, Ohio. Kerr makes immense contribution to aid our understanding on what most of the public and private civic leaders consider as intractable urban residential poverty, discriminatory public housing policy, contribution to Communist Party, urban renewal public planning, and costs to affordable housing.
Molinari et al. (487) and Mendel (653) agree that the homelessness is prevalent in United States and triggers challenge for veterans ...

The Great Atlantic Railroad Company problem

Statutory Issue: Whether the contract between Great Atlantic Railroad Company and the Italian workers is binding upon them or considered as a violation of Act of 1885.
If I were to give legal advice to the Great Atlantic R.R. Co., I will recommend that the subsequent terms and conditions that are included in individual contracts entered between the Italian workers and the company should be declared void and have no effect. Although Section 1 of Act 1885 stated that the law cannot be made applicable to transactions entered prior to the passage of the act, it can be gleaned ...