Th Cleveland Law Library's Board Vice-President Carla Tricarichi has won a $14.7 million dollar victory for railroad workers in a federal court case that took 43 years to wind its way through the system. As a Plain Dealer article explains, the suit, which may be one of the oldest ones in the country, was brought by the workers for seniority, pay and health-care benefits they claimed they lost when Pennsylvania Railroad merged with New York Central Railroad. According to the article, many of the workers are now deceased so there are a number of estates that will receive the proceeds if the judgment is ever paid and not appealed. Although the case started out in Cleveland under former Judge Thomas Lambros, it was moved to Philadelphia, where the judge rendered the $14.7 million decision against the underwriter for the defunct Penn Central.
