ST. LOUIS — Amtrak won the reversal of a $44 million jury award in favor of the family of a man who was fatally shot on a train in a “random execution.” The Eighth Circuit ruled that the family did not establish that the unprovoked attack was foreseeable, as there was no evidence of similar prior violent crime on the “relevant premises” of that train, and Amtrak’s existing security measures did not indicate that violent crime was predictable. The family also failed to prove that Amtrak’s inaction after the shooting led to the passenger’s death, the appeals court ruled.
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