Csx Transportation, Inc. v. McBride

Summary

The Court held that under FELA, the causation standard does not require common-law proximate cause but rather that the railroad's negligence played any part, even the slightest, in producing the injury. This standard derives from the statutory text and Rogers v. Missouri Pacific R. Co. Justice Roberts dissented, arguing FELA generally follows common law and proximate cause was not explicitly abrogated.