One of a handful of the remaining civil suits against Pilot Flying J has been voluntarily dismissed by a federal judge in Kentucky.
The dismissal order was issued Wednesday after lawyers for the trucking company, Triple D Supply, requested the action. The national truck stop firm still faces five other suits brought by truckers who claim they were cheated out of promised rebates.
Lawyers for Triple D, a New Mexico based firm, did not respond to a request for comment.
At one point Knoxville based Pilot was facing dozens of similar suits, but many were resolved in an $85 million class action settlement approved in federal court in Arkansas last November.
Pilot's lawyers recently joined with the company CEO James Haslam in asking that the remaining civil suits be dismissed.
The motions are due to be heard in a November hearing before U.S. District Judge Amul Thapar.
Pilot also has reached a $92 million settlement with the federal government over the rebate skimming charges and 10 of its former executives have entered guilty pleas and await sentencing on mail and wire fraud charges.
The civil suits followed an April 15, 2013 raid on Pilot's headquarters by the FBI and IRS.
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