COUNTY OF DU PAGE v. LABOR RELATIONS BD.

No. 2-04-0392.

834 N.E.2d 976 (2005)

359 Ill. App.3d 577

296 Ill.Dec. 171

The COUNTY OF DU PAGE and The Du Page County Sheriff, Petitioners, v. The ILLINOIS LABOR RELATIONS BOARD, State Panel and Metropolitan Alliance of Police, Du Page County Sheriff's Police Chapter No. 126, Respondents.

Appellate Court of Illinois, Second District.

August 17, 2005.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James Baird, James J. Powers, Seyfarth Shaw, Chicago, for Du Page County Sheriff.

Joseph E. Birkett, Du Page County State's Attorney, Lisa A. Hoffman, Thomas J. Stanfa, Assistant State's Attorneys, Wheaton, for County of Du Page.

Jacalyn J. Zimmerman, General Counsel, Illinois State Labor Relations Board, Lisa Madigan, Attorney General, Gary S. Feinerman, Solicitor General, Jerald S. Post, Assistant Attorney General, Chicago, for Illinois Labor Relations Board, State Panel.

John S. Rossi, Joseph R. Mazzone, Schenk, Duffy, McNamara, Phelan, Carey & Ford, Ltd., Joliet, for Metropolitan Alliance of Police Du Page County Sheriff's Police Chapter No. 126.

Gilbert Feldman, Cornfield & Feldman, Chicago, for Amicus Curiae American Federation of State, County & Municipal Employees, Council 31.


Supplemental Opinion

Presiding Justice O'MALLEY delivered the order of the court:

This cause comes before us on petitioners' motion for attorney fees. As this is the forum in which petitioners first succeeded, and as this issue was not (and could not have been) passed upon by the trial court, we sit as the trier of fact on petitioners' motion. As such, we "will award only those fees that are reasonable, consisting...

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