Paris School District v. Harter, No. 17-3152 (8th Cir. 2018)
Annotate this CaseThe Eighth Circuit affirmed the district court's award of attorney fees and its order denying defendant's motion to untimely file a second request for attorney fees. The court held that the district court did not abuse its discretion by reducing her requested attorney's fees for administrative proceedings. In this case, the district court was well within its discretion to deny defendant's motion for an extension of time to request the attorney fees she had failed to timely include in her first request.
Court Description: Grasz, Author, with Gruender and Melloy, Circuit Judge] Civil case - Attorney's fees. The district court did not abuse its discretion in reducing the defendant's requested attorney's fees for the administrative proceedings in this IDEA matter; nor did the court err in denying defendant's request for an award of attorney's fees related to the district court review proceeding on the ground the request was untimely; the district court's order regarding fees clearly directed defendant to submit her request for fees within a stated time and did not indicate she could file a bifurcated request - one for the administrative proceedings and a second, later request for district court fees after the fee request for the administrative proceeding was resolved.
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