Rebecca H. Holmes v. Millcreek Township School District

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that fee award was excessive because parents were no longer prevailing parties on certain issues and two separate state administrative authorities had found that the parents and their attorney “‘contributed to’ the needlessly ‘protracted proceedings’”
• applying some Johnson factors to reduce attorneys’ fee award in IDEA case, without citing Johnson
• allowing one-fourth of fees where student prevailed on some but not all claims
• “We must give ‘due weight’ to the underlying state administrative proceedings. . . . [A]lthough we must consider administrative fact findings, we have not interpreted Rowley as requiring us to accept such findings.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).