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Type
Dissent
Filed
June 1, 2009
Case
CSX Transportation, Inc. v. Hensley
Case status
Decided

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Justice Ginsburg, dissenting. The Court’s opinion in Norfolk & Western R. Co. v. Ayers, 538 U. S. 135 (2003), would support this plain and simple instruction: “It is incumbent upon [the plaintiff] to prove that his alleged fear [of cancer] is genuine and serious,” id., at 157. The defense-oriented instructions requested, however, were far more elaborate, compare ante, at 8…

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Other writings in this case

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Opinion Not attributed June 1, 2009
Opinion of the Court Per curiam June 1, 2009