# St. Louis Southwestern Railway Co. v. Dickerson

> Supreme Court of the United States · March 4, 1985 · 470 U.S. 409

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9429936

## Case

- **Full name:** St. Louis Southwestern Railway Co. v. Dickerson
- **Court:** Supreme Court of the United States
- **Decided:** March 4, 1985
- **Citations:** 470 U.S. 409; 53 U.S.L.W. 3632; 105 S. Ct. 1347; 84 L. Ed. 2d 303; 1985 U.S. LEXIS 63
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Dissent by Marshall
- **Judges:** Marshall, Powell
- **Cited by:** 194 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

## Citator (automated)

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## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

- stating "[a]s a general matter, FELA cases adjudicated in state courts are subject to state procedural rules, but the substantive law governing them is federal"
- holding that state procedural law applied in state-court litigation of a federal-law claim
- stating that state procedural rules and federal substantive rules apply in FELA cases

## Opinion text

*413 Justice Marshall,
dissenting.
I continue to object to deciding cases without granting to either party an opportunity to argue the merits by either brief or oral argument. I therefore dissent.

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