United States Eighth Circuit

The attorneys' fees provisions of 49 U.S.C. Sec. 14704(e) do not create a right for prevailing defendants to recover attorneys' fees.

Appellate Information

• Decided 02/24/2005
• Published 02/24/2005

Judges

• MURPHY, Circuit Judge., Before WOLLMAN, MURPHY, and BYE, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Eighth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Counsel who presented argument on behalf of the appellant was Paul D. Cullen, Washington, D.C. Also appearing on the brief was David A. Cohen, Washington, D.C.


• For Appellees:
  
• Counsel who presented argument on behalf of the appellee was James C. Sullivan, Kansas City, Missouri.   Also appearing on the brief were R. Lawrence Ward and Richard M. Paul III, Kansas City, Missouri.