Prescott & Northwestern Railroad v. Thomas

How courts have described this case

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• noting that an IDEA request for fee awards and fees-on-fees litigation should be considered part of the same action for the purposes of the IDEA’s fee cap
• reiterating that an IDEA administrative action and ensuing litigation for attorneys’ fees a plaintiff seeks after prevailing in that administrative action “comprise[s] the same action for the purposes of the IDEA and the Appropriations Act fee-cap”
• reiterating that an IDEA administrative action and ensuing litigation for attorneys’ fees a plaintiff seeks after prevailing in that administrative action “comprise[s] the same action for the purposes of the IDEA and the Appropriations Act fee-cap”
• “If the parent wins in district court after losing in the administrative hearing, the parent is eligible to recover attorney’s fees and costs expended in litigating the controversy from beginning to end.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).