177 F. Supp. 2d 201 - BD v. DeBuono’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 20 U.S.C. § 1400 (Education for All Handicapped Children Act of 1975) · 20 U.S.C. § 1415 · 20 U.S.C. § 1431 · 28 U.S.C. § 1821 · 28 U.S.C. § 1920 · 29 U.S.C. § 201 (American Samoa Labor Standards Amendments of 1956) · 29 U.S.C. § 621 (§ 2 of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967) · 29 U.S.C. § 794
Relies on Hensley v. Eckerhart · Landgraf v. USI Film Products · West Virginia University Hospitals, Inc. v. Casey · Pennhurst State School & Hospital v. Halderman · Briggs v. Connecticut
Most-quoted passages
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“[T]he cost of the computer service used in the research is no more reimbursable than the cost of the West's Keynote Digests and the volumes of the Federal Report and the Federal Supplement that lawyers used to use (and many still use) to find authority and research issues of law.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(1) Fees of the clerk and marshal; (2) Fees of the court reporter for all or any part of the stenographic transcript necessarily obtained for use in the case; (3) Fees and disbursements for printing and witnesses; (4) Fees for exemplification and copies of papers necessarily obtained for use in the case; (5) Docket fees under section 1923 of this title; (6) Compensation of court appointed experts, compensation of interpreters, and salaries, fees, expenses, and costs of special interpretation services under section 1828 of this title.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the court, in its discretion, may award reasonable attorneys' fees as part of the costs to the parents of a child with a disability who is the prevailing party.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.