Grantwood Village v. Missouri Pacific Railroad

How later courts describe this case

• noting that National Guard and Reserve Service require only 15 and 14 days, respectively, of active duty training each year
• “[Njothing in the language of § 3730 suggests that its protections are limited to those who were motivated by it”
• finding it not “self-evident that the police offend general fourth-amendment principles when they allow members of the news media to enter someone’s house during the execution of a search warrant”
• “FLSA case law is clear that the employer bears the burden of demonstrating its right to an exemption"
• federal law and regulations exist that preempt questions of railroad abandonment of the Carondelet Branch
• retaliatory discharge is a clearly established First Amendment violation