Union Pacific Beats Worker Vision Testing Suit After SCOTUS Skip

A Union Pacific Railroad Co. conductor’s claims that disability bias caused improper restrictions on his duties was barred by federal railroad safety law, a Texas federal court ruled.

The decision in Robert Zaragoza’s case came after the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit had previously revived it, finding a 7,000 member-plus class action challenging the railroad’s fitness-for-duty testing and determinations that was disbanded by the Eighth Circuit tolled Zaragoza’s time to sue individually. The Supreme Court declined to review the Fifth Circuit’s ruling and similar decisions by two other circuits.

• Union Pacific’s renewed summary-judgment motion was granted based ...