45 U.S.C. § 1001
Section 1001 · Congressional findings
This is the Rock Island Railroad Transition and Employee Assistance Act
Amended 1 time on record
Applied in 8 court decisions — leading case Railway Labor Executives' Assn. v. Gibbons (1982)
Most recently applied in 767 F. Supp. 1012 - Smith v. General Committee of Adjustment (July 1991)
How often courts cite this section
Court decisions citing this, by year.Markers show enactment, consequential amendments, and circuit splits over this section — watch for a citation surge after a change or a disagreement. 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.
Congress hereby finds that—
(1) uninterrupted continuation of services over Rock Island lines is dependent on adequate employee protection provisions covering Rock Island Railroad employees who are not hired by other railroads;
(2) for those Rock Island Railroad employees not hired by other rail carriers, there is no other practicable means of obtaining funds to meet the necessary costs of such employee protection that are assumed by the Rock Island Railroad;
(3) a cessation of necessary operations of the Rock Island Railroad would have serious repercussions on the economies of the States in which such railroad principally operates; and
(4) premature cessation of services over lines which are the subject of pending purchase application would result in harm to the shipping public and could imperil continuation of vital commuter service.
Editorial notes U.S. Code · Office of the Law Revision Counsel
Short Title
Section 101 of title I of Pub. L. 96–254 provided that: “This title [enacting this chapter, amending sections 231f, 726, 825, 902, 911, 913, and 916 of this title, and enacting provisions set out as a note under this section] may be cited as the ‘Rock Island Railroad Transition and Employee Assistance Act’.”
Savings Provision
Section 125, formerly §124, of title I of Pub. L. 96–254, renumbered Pub. L. 96–448, title VII, §701(a)(1), Oct. 14, 1980, 94 Stat. 1959, provided that: “If any provision of this title [see Short Title note above] or the application thereof to any person or circumstance is held invalid, the remainder of this title and the application of such provision to other persons or circumstances shall not be affected thereby.”