Both sides appealed after Marvin Abernathy scored a $525,000 judgment against Eastern Illinois Railroad Co. for a back injury and the U.S. District Court judge denied Abernathy’s request for an order requiring the railroad to reimburse him for $3,800 in fees he paid to his treating physicians for video depositions he used at trial.The district judge ruled that the witness fees Abernathy was entitled to receive in costs — as the prevailing party under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure Rule 54(d)(1) — was …