S-1 and S-2 v. State Board of Education of North Carolina

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• denying attorneys’ fees under the IDEA because there was no settlement agreement
• relief on the merits need not be in the form of a judgment, but may also include comparable relief through a consent decree or settlement agreement
• “The fact that a lawsuit may operate as a catalyst for postlitigation changes in a defendant’s conduct cannot suffice to establish plaintiff as a prevailing party.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).