Edward Campbell v. Allied Van Lines Inc.

410 F.3d 618 Edward CAMPBELL, Husband; Susan Campbell, Wife, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. ALLIED VAN LINES INC.; Gates Moving & Storage Inc.; Kachina Moving & Storage, Inc., an Arizona corporation; Mayflower Transit, Inc., an Indiana corporation, Defendants-Appellants. No. 04-15969. United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit. Argued and Submitted April 13, 2005. Filed June 7, 2005. Daryl Manhart, Burch & Cracchiolo, P.A., Phoenix, AZ, for the defendants-appellants. Gregory E. Good, Good & Associates, P.C., Tucson, AZ, for the plaintiffs-appellees. Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Arizona; Warren W. Eginton, District Judge, Presiding. D.C. No. CV-01-00139-WWE. Before BEEZER, O'SCANNLAIN, and KLEINFELD, Circuit Judges. BEEZER, Circuit Judge. 1 This appeal involves the awarding of attorney's fees to shippers who successfully sue carriers of household goods under the Carmack Amendment. The appellants in this case are moving companies. They assert that there is no statutory basis to support the district court's award of an attorney's fee to shippers who brought a court action without first engaging in available arbitration. We have…