Dicks v. District of Columbia

How courts have described this case

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• finding that plaintiffs were substantially justified 6 in rejecting a settlement offer that included only $400 in attorneys’ fees where counsel had expended 33.5 hours on the case as of the date of the offer
• refusing to reimburse for work “drafting and filing a separate complaint and corresponding with DCPS about the resolution of this separate action”
• refusing to reimburse for work \drafting and filing a separate complaint and corresponding with DCPS about the resolution of this separate action\
• “A settlement offer that compensates counsel for a mere fraction [of] its efforts deters parents from exercising their due process rights and, as such, is inimical to the IDEA’s purpose.”
• “A settlement offer that compensates 25 counsel for a mere fraction for its efforts deters parents from exercising their due process rights 26 and, as such, is inimical to the IDEA’s purpose.”

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