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ALIEF INDEPENDENT SCH. v. C.C. EX REL. KENNETH C.

No. 12-20628 Summary Calendar.

713 F.3d 268 (2013)

ALIEF INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT, and their Respective Employees and Members of the Board of Trustees, Plaintiff-Appellee v. C.C., by next friend KENNETH & Nneka C., Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

April 3, 2013.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jon Erik Nichols , Jonathan Griffin Brush , Amy Joyce Cumings Tucker , Rogers, Morris & Grover, L.L.P., Houston, TX, for Plaintiff-Appellee.

Catherine Merino Reisman , Attorney, Reisman Carolla Gran, L.L.P., Haddonfield, NJ, Dominic John Merino , Alvin, TX, John C. Filosa , Attorney, Baker & McKenzie, L.L.P., Chicago, IL, for Defendant-Appellant.

Before REAVLEY, JOLLY, and DAVIS, Circuit Judges.

PER CURIAM:

Defendants-Appellants are parents of a minor child who filed an unsuccessful administrative complaint against the Plaintiff-Appellee school district. The district court denied the school district's subsequent request for attorneys' fees. Although the parents asserted that the district court's denial of attorneys' fees in turn rendered them prevailing parties — potentially entitling them to attorneys' fees — the district court declined to...

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