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HUNSICKER v. THOMPSON

No. S-799.

717 P.2d 358 (1986)

Patricia C. HUNSICKER, Darlene Sullivan, Debra L. Richey and Paula S. Apger, Appellants, v. Evelyn THOMPSON, Clerk of the Matanuska-Susitna Borough; Assemblyperson Rose Palmquist; Mayor Edna Armstrong; Assemblyperson Elizabeth Berry; Assemblyperson Barbara Carr; Assemblyperson John Musgrove; Assemblyperson Alfred Strawn; Assemblyperson Vern Ungerecht and the Matanuska-Susitna Borough, Appellees.

Supreme Court of Alaska.

April 11, 1986.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James T. Robinson, Smith, Robinson, Gruening & Brecht, Anchorage, for appellants.

Patricia R. Hefferan, Kopperud & Hefferan, Wasilla, for appellees.

Before RABINOWITZ, C.J., and BURKE, MATTHEWS, COMPTON and MOORE, JJ.

OPINION

COMPTON, Justice.

This appeal raises the question whether the trial court abused its discretion in failing to award full reasonable attorney's fees incurred in public interest litigation. We reverse.

I. FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND

The facts giving rise to the appeal are not in dispute. Three candidates appeared on the ballot of a recent Mat-Su Borough School Board election. Patricia C. Hunsicker received a plurality of over...

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