{"id":224945,"date":"2026-04-09T15:09:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T15:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/224945\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T15:09:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T15:09:08","slug":"court-gives-former-conductor-time-to-refile-against-brightline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/224945\/","title":{"rendered":"Court gives former conductor time to refile against Brightline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"responsive-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Brightline_General_Photos_MJO_1.jpg\"   width=\"1140\" height=\"641\" title=\"A Brightline train crosses through Northwest 14th Street near Northwest 1st Avenue in July in Miami. \" alt=\"A Brightline train crosses through Northwest 14th Street near Northwest 1st Avenue in July in Miami. \"\/><\/p>\n<p>        A Brightline train crosses through Northwest 14th Street near Northwest 1st Avenue in July in Miami. <\/p>\n<p>                Matias J. Ocner<\/p>\n<p>            mocner@miamiherald.com<\/p>\n<p>A federal judge this week dismissed a lawsuit that a former train conductor filed against Florida passenger train Brightline, saying the complaint was a \u201cshotgun pleading\u201d that contained irrelevant material.<\/p>\n<p>The lawsuit was filed by Darren Brown, whose therapist diagnosed him with post traumatic stress disorder. Brown is seeking compensation from Brightline after being involved in multiple fatalities.<\/p>\n<p>Brightline asked that the lawsuit be dismissed. The judge agreed, but will give Brown time to file a new version.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s the judge\u2019s order:<\/p>\n<p>        Related Stories from  Miami Herald<\/p>\n<p>                <a href=\"https:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/profile\/281878518\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n                        <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"author-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Newsroom_Headshots_MJO_10.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" alt=\"Profile Image of Brittany Wallman\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>\n                    <\/a><\/p>\n<p>                <a class=\"author-name\" href=\"https:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/profile\/281878518\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brittany Wallman<\/a><\/p>\n<p>                    Miami Herald<\/p>\n<p>            Brittany Wallman joined the Miami Herald in 2023 as an investigative journalist. She has been a reporter in South Florida for 25 years, and shared in the South Florida Sun Sentinel\u2019s 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service, for coverage of the Parkland school shooting. She grew up in Iowa and Oklahoma. Brittany is a graduate of the University of Florida.\n            <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Brightline train crosses through Northwest 14th Street near Northwest 1st Avenue in July in Miami. Matias J.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":224946,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-224945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224945\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}