Drollinger v. State Of Arizona

962 F.2d 956 30 Wage & Hour Cas. (BNA) 1436 , 121 Lab.Cas. P 35,632 Danny F. DROLLINGER, Shaun K. Fitzgerald, Jerry G. Fuller, Michael J. Hanks, Daniel L. Hogg, Ernest J. Murray, William H. Simpson, and Ronald L. Shannon, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. STATE OF ARIZONA; Rose Mofford, Governor, Defendants-Appellees. No. 90-16591. United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit. Argued and Submitted Nov. 7, 1991. Decided April 27, 1992. Kimberlee Keller, Weinberg & Dempsey, Washington, D.C., for plaintiffs-appellants. Linda A. Thompson, Atty. Gen.'s Office, Phoenix, Ariz., for defendants-appellees. Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Arizona. Before: POOLE, REINHARDT, and FERNANDEZ, Circuit Judges. PER CURIAM: 1 Appellants allege that Arizona violated Section 8 of the 1985 Amendments to the Fair Labor Standards Act, 29 U.S.C. § 201 et seq. ("the FLSA"), by making two changes in its method of paying state firefighters after those Amendments became effective. The first change modified the state firefighters' hourly wage rate and established a separate overtime rate. The second change eliminated the previous policy of counting leave time as time…