context: Elizabeth Jester, Esq. represented all seven plaintiffs at their IDEA hearings and charged the same hourly rate and costs for each plaintiff. (Pl.'s Opp'n to Def.'s Mot. to Dismiss and Sever ("Pl.'s Opp'n") at 2-3.) Additionally, the plaintiffs allege that the District of Columbia applied a common billing practice to reduce the fees it paid for all plaintiffs' claims at issue. (Id. at 4.) This claim finds support in the District of Columbia's admission that it capped all of the plaintiffs' claims under a Congressionally-imposed fee cap of $4,000. (Def.'s Reply at 3.) That the District ostensibly applied a common policy to reduce all of the plaintiffs' fee requests provides a sufficient basis for concluding that there is a logical relationship between the plaintiffs' fee requests, such that they satisfy the first prong of Rule 20(a).
citation_a.signal: cf.
citation_a.identifier: 2009 WL 6496484, at *2
citation_a.parenthetical: noting the absence of a "policy similarly affecting each plaintiffs case"
citation_a.sentence: See Disparte, 223 F.R.D. at 16 (finding the first prong of Rule 20(a) satisfied in the context of an employment discrimination claim where plaintiffs alleged that they were subject to a common policy of the defendant); cf. Battle, 2009 WL 6496484, at *2 (noting the absence of a “policy similarly affecting each plaintiffs case”).
citation_b.signal: see
citation_b.identifier: 223 F.R.D. 16, 16
citation_b.parenthetical: finding the first prong of Rule 20(a) satisfied in the context of an employment discrimination claim where plaintiffs alleged that they were subject to a common policy of the defendant
citation_b.sentence: See Disparte, 223 F.R.D. at 16 (finding the first prong of Rule 20(a) satisfied in the context of an employment discrimination claim where plaintiffs alleged that they were subject to a common policy of the defendant); cf. Battle, 2009 WL 6496484, at *2 (noting the absence of a “policy similarly affecting each plaintiffs case”).