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Victims of a crash that virtually incinerated an entire Canadian town argued that the railroad is playing games with the courts, but the judges seemed unsure.
Lac-Mégantic, Quebec, on July 6, 2013, after a train owned by a subsidiary of Canadian Pacific, derailed and caused a fatal oil spill. (Photo by a Sûreté du Québec helicopter via Courthouse News)
BOSTON (CN) A massive lawsuit over the 2013 Lac-Mégantic train explosion put the First Circuit at odds Wednesday over whether legal technicalities are more important than fairness to the victims.
As argued by lawyers for dozens of bereaved families, the Canadian Pacific Railway is primed to escape liability after having covered up which of its U.S. subsidiaries was responsible, then using the plaintiffs’ failure to name the correct subsidiary as grounds to throw out the case.