Legal Opinion
Burke v. Arizona State Retirement System
Court of Appeals of Arizona
Decided October 6, 2003No. 2 CA-CV 2002-0035PublishedCited by 20 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
ESPINOSA, Chief Judge.
¶ 1 The Arizona State Retirement System, the Arizona Board of Regents, and the State of Arizona (collectively, “ASRS”) previously appealed from a post-settlement award of attorney fees to counsel representing state employee James Burke and a class of similarly situated state employees. ASRS argued the fee award was unreasonably high because the trial court erroneously applied the “common fund doctrine” rather than the hourly “lodestar” method of calculating fees. In an opinion filed April 29, 2003, we agreed with ASRS because we found the common fund doctrine…
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