Lani Moore v. District of Columbia

How courts have described this case

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• holding that attorney’s fees may be awarded to a prevailing party at an administrative hearing
• distinguishing between civil actions in federal court and administrative proceedings and finding that Congress intended to authorize fees for prevailing parties in both types of proceedings
• Carey dealt with whether a party can recover fees incurred in necessary state administrative proceedings
• Carey dealt with whether a party can recover fees incurred in necessary state administrative proceedings
• “[T]he text and structure of [IDEA] directly support the inference that Congress intended section 1415(e)(4) to provide an independent cause of action for fees.” (emphasis added)
• “We begin, as we must, with an examination of the statutory text.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).