| Conductor
Ordered to Drive Train in Hot Cab
Sued NJ Transit Citing Loss of
Guitar Skills
by
Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book
Substack
SDNY COURTHOUSE,
March 14 –
Scott Lupia
was ordered to
drive a New
Jersey Transit
trial from
Penn Station
toward Dover,
NJ, on July
21, 2020
despite
telling his
supervisors
the control
cab was too
hot, he felt
dizzy and had
a medical
condition.
He
was
hospitalized
and
sued.
On
March 14, 2023
U.S. District
Court for the
Southern
District of
New York
Judge Lewis J.
Liman was
presiding over
the trial.
Inner City
Press went and
covered
it.
Lupia
was on the
witness stand.
He described
telling his
supervisor Sue
Walker about
his medical
condition, but
being told to
drive
nonetheless.
Later
he described
being taken to
the hospital
in Summit, NJ
and various
ailments
since,
including no
longer while
playing the
guitary being
able to
coordinate his
pick hand and
his fret
hand.
A
settlement
conference was
previously
held in the
case, but
without
result. Now a
civil jury of
six - there
was one
alternate also
selected in a
voir dire
without court
reporter -
will soon
decide.
The
case is Lupia
v. New Jersey
Transit Rail
Operations,
Inc.,
21-cv-11077
(Liman)
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