Union Pacific Railroad Company
235 distinct federal cases coded as employment matters from public court records (1998–2026)
181 trusted published court opinions across 150 distinct cases · 6 docket-only cases without a recorded end date
What public court records show
In public federal court records, Union Pacific Railroad Company is named as a party in 235 federal cases coded as employment matters between 1998 and 2026.
Of the 176 trusted published opinions analyzed, the most common outcomes were: 102 ended in a ruling for the employer, 37 ended in a ruling for the worker, 14 had a mixed result, and 14 were sent back to a lower court.
5 further opinions are listed below but left out of these outcome figures, because the employer brought the case or was not a party to it.
Plaintiffs won 37 of 161 adjudicated opinions (23%).
The most common claims on record were Discrimination, Failure To Accommodate, and Wrongful Termination.
Cases were filed across 17 states, most often in NE.
These figures summarize publicly available U.S. federal court records only. Most workplace disputes are resolved privately and never appear in litigation. A case outcome reflects many factors and is not a finding that any employer violated the law.
Written decisions across 150 distinct cases.
37 of 161 adjudicated opinions ended in a plaintiff win.
Does not imply wrongdoing — many cases are dismissed or resolved without findings of liability.
Positive amounts in plaintiff-win, mixed-outcome, or settlement opinions only. AI-extracted; amounts may not equal money paid.
Jurisdictions represented in the analyzed opinions.
About this employer
Union Pacific Railroad Company appears in 181 trusted published federal employment opinions. Recent written decisions on record:
Ross Christensen v. Union Pacific Railroad Co. (2026) — Defendant Win. A conductor who had experienced a stroke sued Union Pacific Railroad, claiming the company discriminated against him and failed to accommodate his medical condition. The conductor challenged work restrictions that prevented him from performing his job for one year, and later for five years. Read the ruling.
Vasquez v. Union Pacific Railroad (2025) — Defendant Win. Read the ruling.
Cromeens v. Union Pacific Railroad Co. (2025) — Defendant Win. Read the ruling.
The published opinions primarily involve Discrimination (99 of 181), Failure to Accommodate (78 of 181), Wrongful Termination (65 of 181). Browse the linked claim hubs for outcome statistics and other employers facing the same allegations. Discrimination, Failure to Accommodate and Wrongful Termination.
Applicable statutes referenced across these rulings include: NLRA (29 U.S.C. §§ 151-169) — The National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) protects the rights of employees to organize, form or join labor unions, bargain collectively through representatives of their choosing, and engage in other concerted activities for mutual aid or protection. See the NLRA reference page for filing deadlines, employee thresholds, and remedies. NLRA.
Published opinions span Nebraska (30), Illinois (22), Wisconsin (8), Louisiana (6). Nebraska is an EEOC deferral state, which extends the federal Title VII / ADA / ADEA filing deadline from 180 to 300 days. Browse state-specific employment rulings for jurisdictional patterns. Nebraska rulings, Illinois rulings, Wisconsin rulings and Louisiana rulings.
These published opinions sit within the transportation sector, where USERRA, FMLA, and DOT safety-retaliation claims appear alongside standard discrimination claims.
Opinion Outcomes
5 listed opinions are not counted here: the employer brought the case, or was not a party to an appeal against an agency, so the recorded outcome is not a result for or against a worker.
Opinion Stages
176 analyzed opinions have a classified procedural stage.
Of the 48 summary-judgment opinions, 38 ended the case in Union Pacific Railroad Company’s favor and 10 let the worker’s claims continue.
What do these stages mean?
- Appeal
- A higher court reviewing an earlier decision. Many published opinions come from this stage, after a lot has already happened in the case.
- Summary judgment
- A ruling where the judge decides the case — or part of it — without a trial, because one side argues the key facts are not in dispute. For workers, getting past this step is often the biggest hurdle.
- Motion to dismiss
- An early request — usually by the employer — to throw the case out before any evidence is gathered.
- Trial verdict
- A judge or jury heard the evidence and reached a decision. Relatively few disputes get this far.
- Other rulings
- Procedural decisions and orders that do not fit the main stages above.
Published federal-court opinions only — most workplace disputes are resolved privately. This is not anyone’s odds, and not a finding that any employer violated the law.
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What these numbers mean
A case is one lawsuit, identified by its court and docket number. The docket is the running court record for that same case — it is not an extra case.
A published opinion or ruling is a written court decision. One case can produce several opinions, so opinion counts and case counts answer different questions. Only trusted, reportable opinions are used in the outcome statistics on this page.
Docket entries are the individual filings inside a case — motions, orders, scheduling notices. We read them to confirm a case is real and to see where it got to, but an entry is never counted as a case or as an outcome. A single case can generate hundreds of entries.
Far fewer opinions than cases is normal. Many employment cases settle privately or close without a published opinion. No opinion here does not mean the worker lost; it means this public record does not show a reportable result.
Everything on this page comes from public federal court records. Where we are not confident a record is accurate, we leave it out rather than guess.
Federal court cases
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Other court records naming this party
134 published opinions name this party but are not coded with an employment claim. Some are labor, unemployment or workers’ compensation matters whose claim type was not recorded; others are not employment disputes at all. They are not counted in any figure on this page, and no outcome is shown for them.
- Union Pacific Railroad Company v. EmployeeArk. · 2024
- Union Pacific Railroad Company v. EmployeeArk. · 2024
- Union Pacific Railroad Company v. EmployeeW.D. Wash. · 2024 · Washington
- Employee v. Union Pacific Railroad CompanyMo. Ct. App. · 2024
- Union Pacific Railroad Company v. Employee7th Circuit · 2023
- Union Pacific Railroad Company v. EmployeeW.D. Wash. · 2022 · Washington
- Employee v. Union Pacific Railroad5th Circuit · 2022
- Employee v. Union Pacific RailroadD. Nev. · 2022 · Nevada
- Union Pacific Railroad Company v. EmployeeTex. App.—14th Dist. · 2022
- Employee v. City of Palestine5th Circuit · 2022
- Employee v. Metropolitan Life Insurance Co.N.D. Ill. · 2022 · Illinois
- Employee v. Union Pacific Railroad CompanyTex. App.—11th Dist. · 2022
- Employee v. Union Pacific Railroad CompanyS.D. Ill. · 2022 · Illinois
- Employee v. Union Pacific Railroad CompanyD. Neb. · 2021 · Nebraska
- Union Pacific Railroad Company v. EmployeeD. Neb. · 2021 · Nebraska
- Employee v. Union Pacific RailroadCal. Ct. App. · 2020
- Employee v. Union Pacific Railroad, Herbert Diaz and Bert Fredrick HarknessTex. App.—8th Dist. · 2020
- Employee v. Union Pacific Railroad CompanyD. Neb. · 2020 · Nebraska
- Employee v. Union Pacific Railroad Compan7th Circuit · 2020
- Employee v. Union Pacific Railroad Compan7th Circuit · 2020
- Employee v. Union Pacific Railroad Corp.N.D. Ill. · 2020 · Illinois
- Union Pacific Railroad Company v. EmployeeN.D. Ill. · 2020 · Illinois
- Employee v. Union Pacific Railroad CompanyD. Neb. · 2020 · Nebraska
- Employee v. Union Pacific Railroad CompanyD. Neb. · 2020 · Nebraska
- Union Pacific Railroad Company v. EmployeeD.C. Circuit · 2020
- Employee v. Union Pacific Railroad CompanyD. Neb. · 2020 · Nebraska
- Employee v. Union Pacific Railroad CompanyD. Neb. · 2019 · Nebraska
- Employee v. Utah State Tax CommissionD. Utah · 2019 · Utah
- Employee v. Union Pacific Railroad CompanyD. Neb. · 2019 · Nebraska
- Union Pacific Railroad Company v. EmployeeTex. App.—1st Dist. · 2019
- Employee v. Union Pacific RR. Co.Neb. · 2019
- Employee v. Union Pacific Railroad Co.Ill. App. Ct. · 2019
- Employee v. Union Pacific RR. Co.Neb. · 2019 · Nebraska
- Employee v. Union Pacific Railroad Compan7th Circuit · 2019
- Employee v. Union Pac. R.R. Co.W.D. Tex. · 2019 · Texas
- Employee v. Union Pac. R.R. Co.WISCTAPP · 2019
- Union Pacific Railroad Company v. EmployeeTex. App.—4th Dist. · 2018
- Employee v. Union Pacific Corporation5th Circuit · 2018
- Employee v. Union Pacific Railroad Compan7th Circuit · 2018
- Employee v. Union Pacific Railroad CompanyTex. App.—4th Dist. · 2018
- Employee v. Union Pac. R.R. Co.Mo. Ct. App. · 2018
- Employee v. Union Pacific Railroad CompanyW.D. Ark. · 2018 · Arkansas
- Employee v. Union Pacific Railroad Compan7th Circuit · 2018
- Employee v. Union Pacific Railroad7th Circuit · 2017
- Employee v. Union Pacific Railroad7th Circuit · 2017
- Employee v. Union Pacific CorporationDELSUPERCT · 2017
- Employee v. Union Pacific CorporationDELSUPERCT · 2017
- Employee v. Union Pacific RailroadArk. Ct. App. · 2017
- Employee v. United States8th Circuit · 2017
- Employee v. Union Pac. R.R. Co.Ark. Ct. App. · 2017
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Data sourced from public federal court records via CourtListener.com. Case outcomes extracted using AI analysis. This information is for educational purposes only and does not constitute legal advice. The presence of an employer on this page does not imply wrongdoing — many cases are dismissed or resolved without findings of liability.