FEDERAL EMPLOYERS' LIABILITY ACT
Applied in 3 court decisions — leading case In Re Missouri Pacific Railroad Co. (1999)
Most recently applied in In Re Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Co., L.L.C. (January 2008)
Added by Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 138, Sec. 2, eff
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
(a) This section only applies to suits brought under the federal Employers' Liability Act (45 U.S.C. Section 51 et seq.).
(b) All suits brought under the federal Employers' Liability Act shall be brought:
(1) in the county in which all or a substantial part of the events or omissions giving rise to the claim occurred;
(2) in the county where the defendant's principal office in this state is located; or
(3) in the county where the plaintiff resided at the time the cause of action accrued.
Official source: Texas Constitution and Statutes. Reproduced from public-domain Texas statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.