August 16, 2012
A federal judge on Tuesday said corporate defendants in a lawsuit over a fatal June 2009 Washington, D.C., Metro train crash can contest their liability, a blow to the plaintiffs who had argued the transportation businesses already had admitted they were liable.
February 15, 2012
Settlements have been reached in seven of the nine wrongful death suits against the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority over a June 2009 Metro crash, an attorney for the victims' families said Wednesday.
November 08, 2010
A federal judge has cut one claim from a suit brought by victims of a June 2009 Metro crash that killed nine people in Washington, ruling that the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority cannot be held liable for keeping older trains in service.