Jane Doe v. Boston Public Schools

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• holding that Buckhannon applies to the IDEA and that IDEA plaintiffs who achieve their desired result via private settlement may not, in the absence of a judicial imprimatur, be considered “prevailing parties”
• holding that Buckhannon applies to the IDEA and that IDEA plaintiffs who achieve their desired result via private settlement may not, in the absence of a judicial imprimatur, be considered “prevailing parties”
• holding that Buckhannon applies to the fee-shifting provision of the IDEA
• applying the Buckhannon prevailing party analysis in the context of a reguest for attorney's fees under the IDEA
• noting the Supreme Court’s “unambigu- ous rejection of private settlement as sufficient grounds for ‘prevailing party’ status”
• stating that Buckhannon’s fee-shifting provisions applies to the IDEA

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).