other measurement error.”). See also Sisk, supra, at 140 ("The volatility of local indices, reflecting the smaller sample size which makes them subject to more sampling and other measurement error, make use of the local measure unwise and inaccurate.”) (footnotes omitted). 23 . See United States Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Consumer Price Indexes: Frequently Asked Questions, 16. What Areas Indexes are Published and How Often, available at http://www.bls.gov/cpi/cpifaq.htm # Question_16 (last visited May 3, 2005) ("As a result, local area indexes are more volatile than the national or regional indexes and BLS strongly urges users to consider adopting the national or regional CPIs for use in escalator clauses.”). 24 . Cf. California Marine Cleaning, 43 Fed. Cl. at 734 (<HOLDING>) Id. (citing Chin v. United States, 948 F.2d
holding attorney lacked standing to challenge amount of attorney fees awarded plaintiffs not parties to the appeal holding because an award of attorney fees is discretionary court may consider attorney fees in relation to the underlying equities in the case holding that because attorney fees were approximately evenly distributed over these four months the court will use the arithmetic mean of the cpi for these four months to adjust all attorney fees holding that an attorney violated rule 84c when the attorney retained unearned fees from four clients holding a summary judgment to be final although motion to assess attorney fees remained pending because award of attorney fees is collateral to judgment