Justices’ Split Keeps Intact Union Pacific Railway Safety Ruling

The U.S. Supreme Court split evenly on a railway safety case, leaving in place a lower court’s decision throwing out a train conductor’s lawsuit against Union Pacific Railroad Co. because he was injured when a locomotive was temporarily stopped in a rail yard.

The justices didn’t opine on the case in their 4-4 decision Thursday, which affirmed the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit’s holding without setting a nationwide precedent on the scope of the Locomotive Inspection Act’s safety standards.

Justice Amy Coney Barrett sat out the case, as she was a member of the three-judge Seventh Circuit ...