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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]