context: Courts in this district have also expressed a preference, albeit in dicta, for joining IDEA fee claims.
citation_a.signal: see
citation_a.identifier: 338 F.Supp.2d 113, 122
citation_a.parenthetical: noting that bundling fee applications would "reduce the number of individual lawsuits and ultimately save the parties and the Court time and energy"
citation_a.sentence: See Abraham v. Dist. of Columbia, 338 F.Supp.2d 113, 122 (D.D.C. 2004) (noting that bundling fee applications would “reduce the number of individual lawsuits and ultimately save the parties and the Court time and energy”); Armstrong v. Vance, 328 F.Supp.2d 50, 55-56 (D.D.C.2004) (endorsing “actions that include multiple fee requests” because “while each fee petition will be considered separately, combining them in one complaint avoids burdening the Court with multiple actions”).
citation_b.signal: but see
citation_b.parenthetical: "[A]l-though the plaintiffs point out that some courts in this district have expressed in dicta a preference for joining multiple IDEA fee litigation claims in a single case, nothing in those decisions suggests that such a preference permits the joinder of unrelated claims that do not satisfy the requirements of Rule 20(a
citation_b.sentence: But see Davidson, 736 F.Supp.2d at 121 n. 4 (“[A]l-though the plaintiffs point out that some courts in this district have expressed in dicta a preference for joining multiple IDEA fee litigation claims in a single case, nothing in those decisions suggests that such a preference permits the joinder of unrelated claims that do not satisfy the requirements of Rule 20(a).”).