United States Seventh Circuit

Where school district acted gratuitously in paying for a second Independent Education Evaluation to which the parents were not legally entitled, the parents could not obtain prevailing party status to justify attorneys' fees under the Individuals With Disabilities Act.

Appellate Information

• Argued 01/24/2001
• Decided 03/08/2001
• Published 03/08/2001

Judges

• TERENCE T. EVANS, Circuit Judge., Before FLAUM, Chief Judge, and EVANS and WILLIAMS, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Seventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Jeff Scott Olson (argued), Madison, WI, for Plaintiffs-Appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Jeffrey A. Schmeckpeper (argued), Kasdorf, Lewis & Swietlik, Milwaukee, WI, for Defendant-Appellee.