{"id":2567,"date":"2024-09-11T23:02:10","date_gmt":"2024-09-11T23:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/11th-circuit-affirms-csx-transportations-decision-to-fire-railroad-operator\/"},"modified":"2024-09-11T23:02:10","modified_gmt":"2024-09-11T23:02:10","slug":"11th-circuit-affirms-csx-transportations-decision-to-fire-railroad-operator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/11th-circuit-affirms-csx-transportations-decision-to-fire-railroad-operator\/","title":{"rendered":"11th Circuit Affirms CSX Transportation&#8217;s Decision To Fire Railroad Operator"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">A CSX train operator could not prove that his refusal to work in unsafe conditions during a lightning storm in Birmingham, Alabama, was a contributing factor to his alleged retaliatory termination months later, a federal appellate court ruled this week.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit issued an <a style=\"color: #000000\" href=\"https:\/\/media.ca11.uscourts.gov\/opinions\/pub\/files\/202311899.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">opinion<\/a>\u00a0Sept. 9, affirming the district court\u2019s summary judgment ruling in\u00a0favor of\u00a0CSX in a suit brought by a former employee, Jeremy Hitt, who claimed he was retaliated against after refusing to work in unsafe conditions at the end of a lightning storm. Hitt alleged his supervisor, Nick Smith, subsequently targeted him over the next several months, ultimately leading to the employee\u2019s termination following a failed safety test.\u00a0The case is captioned\u00a0<em>Hitt v. CSX Transportation.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A CSX train operator could not prove that his refusal to work in unsafe conditions during a lightning storm in Birmingham, Alabama, was a contributing factor to his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2568,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2659,465,610,3380,1521,1103,3349,3382,3381],"class_list":["post-2567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lawyers","tag-11th","tag-affirms","tag-circuit","tag-csx","tag-decision","tag-fire","tag-operator","tag-railroad","tag-transportations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2567\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}