February 12, 2026
An Illinois federal judge tossed a suit Thursday from a Black former worker for Canadian Pacific Railway who said he was illegally fired and had a disability accommodation request ignored, saying the railway's assertions that he slept on the job and allowed train malfunctions put his termination on solid ground.
September 27, 2022
An Illinois federal judge rejected Canadian Pacific Railway's push to get a Black former engineer's racial discrimination suit tossed, ruling that federal railway labor law doesn't trump the worker's civil rights claims.