Pitcher v. Laird

How courts have described this case

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• holding that plaintiff was a prevailing party because, by obtaining a preliminary injunction, he achieved the purpose of the suit — to participate in sports during his senior year of high school
• noting that \a claim of entitlement to attorney's fees does not preserve a moot cause of action\
• “special circumstances” precluded a fee award to a prevailing plaintiff whose lack of entitlement to the relief secured by a preliminary injunction was promptly revealed by the reversal on appeal of a companion case concerning identical legal issues and overlapping defendants
• “While a claim of entitlement to attorney ’ s fees does not preserve a moot 35 cause of action, the expiration of the underlying cause of action does not moot a controversy over attorney ’s fees already incurred.”
• “[A] party which achieves the objective of its suit by means of an injunction issued by the district court is a prevailing party in that court, notwithstanding the fact that the case becomes moot, through no acquiescence by the defendant, while the order is on appeal.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).