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ALASKA LEGAL SERVICES CORP. v. THOMAS

No. 4482.

623 P.2d 342 (1981)

ALASKA LEGAL SERVICES CORPORATION, Appellant, v. Rachel Robertson THOMAS, Ronald Gene Thomas, and State of Alaska, Appellees.

Supreme Court of Alaska.

February 13, 1981.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard Brown and Donald E. Clocksin, Alaska Legal Services Corp., Anchorage, for appellant.

Thomas E. Fenton, Call, Haycraft & Fenton, Fairbanks, for appellees.

Effie E. Forde-Williamson, Legal Services Corp. and Michael B. Trister, Sobol & Trister, Washington, D.C., amicus curiae.

Before RABINOWITZ, C.J., CONNOR, BURKE and MATTHEWS, JJ., and DIMOND, Senior Justice.

OPINION

CONNOR, Justice.

The issue in this appeal is whether a trial court can order Alaska Legal Services Corporation to reimburse the state for attorney's fees paid by the state to counsel appointed for an indigent defendant when Alaska Legal Services represents the plaintiff.1

In this case Alaska Legal Services Corporation (ALSC) represented Rachel Robertson Thomas in a proceeding subsequent to her divorce from Ronald...

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