United States Ninth Circuit

The definition of "prevailing party" set forth by the Supreme Court in Buckhannon Bd. & Care Home, Inc. v. W. Va. Dep't of Health & Human Res., 532 U.S. 598, 600 (2001), applies to the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act's (IDEA) attorneys' fees provision. Further, the determination that a parent is a prevailing party requires that there be some judicial sanction of a settlement agreement, and there was no judicial imprimatur of the settlement agreement in the case at hand.

Appellate Information

• Argued 06/09/2006
• Decided 08/15/2006
• Published 08/15/2006

Judges

• Before DAVID R. THOMPSON, A. WALLACE TASHIMA, and CONSUELO M. CALLAHAN, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Charlotte Cassady, Seattle, WA, for the plaintiff-appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Lawrence B. Ransom and Tracy M. Miller, Karr Tuttle Campbell, Seattle, WA, for the defendant-appellee.