Sanborn v. Brooker & Wake Property Management, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that “only the portion of wages which is disputed in good faith is exempted from treble damages.”
• holding 15 that treble damages should not be awarded under the Arizona wage statute where the 16 amount of wages owed was not ascertainable at the time of discharge
• explaining that treble damages are allowed for unpaid wages under Arizona law and that “[withholding wages is forbidden unless there is a reasonable good faith dispute as to the amount of wages owed” (citation, brackets, and internal quotation marks omitted)
• finding treble damages were not 8 warranted when employer withholds wages “based on a good faith belief that they owe 9 nothing more”
• affirming award of $25,767.15, consisting of $8,589.05 in unpaid wages and $17,178.10 in penalties under statute allowing recovery of \an amount which is treble the amount of the unpaid wages\
• stating that the Warner factors “are not a guide for deciding who is the prevailing party but rather are intended ‘to assist the trial judge in determining whether attorney’s fees should be granted . . . once eligibility has been established.’” (alteration in original

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).