District of Columbia v. Nahass

How courts have described this case

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• explaining that a fee applicant must be considered a \prevailing party\ to be entitled to attorneys' fees under the IDEA, and \secur[ing] a favorable ruling on mootness grounds\ is \not enough to establish 'prevailing party' status\
• explaining that a fee applicant must be considered a “prevailing party” to be entitled to attorneys’ fees under the IDEA, and “secur[ing] a favorable ruling on mootness grounds” is “not enough to establish ‘prevailing party’ status”
• “[W]here a defendant is seeking to establish ‘prevailing party’ status, that party need not establish a court-ordered change in the legal relationship of the parties.”
• “acted in a sanctionable manner under 20 U.S.C. § 1415(i)(3)(B)(i)”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).