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041788P.pdf 02/24/2005 Independent Drivers v. New Prime, Inc.
U.S. Court of Appeals Case No: 04-1788
Western District of Missouri
Civil case - ICC Termination Act of 1995. Attorneys' fees provisions
of the act - 49 U.S.C. Sec. 14704(e) - must be read consistent with the
design of the act, which was to benefit plaintiffs, and the section cannot
be read as creating a right for prevailing defendants to recover attorneys'
fees.
[PUBLISHED] [Murphy, Author, with Wollman and Bye, Circuit Judges]