(Reuters) - If you’re a regular reader of my column, you won’t be surprised by the central finding in a newly-posted draft law review article by law professors Matthew Cain and Steven Solomon of ...

While mootness is related to subject matter jurisdiction, case law has carved out exceptions to the rule. This article addresses the exception that brings into focus an instance "where the issue to be ...

Mootness and Ethics: Meeting the Client’s Objectives While mootness may occur in many civil and criminal contexts, this article focuses largely on its application in Family Court appeals—a frequent ...

“Mootness fees” to plaintiffs’ counsel after a voluntary dismissal have become a standard feature of deal litigation resolved before a stockholder motion to enjoin a transaction based on alleged proxy ...

(Reuters) - The shareholder firm Rigrodsky Law may come to rue a pair of lawsuits it filed inviting judicial scrutiny of a controversial business model that rewards firms for accomplishing nothing ...

Is the appeal of a preliminary injunction rendered moot when the prevailing plaintiff ceases the activities that originally gave rise to its need for an injunction? Not necessarily, according to the ...

Chief Justice Roberts has drawn a sharp rebuke for condoning the Supreme Court majority’s April 27 decision refusing to take up a Second Amendment case. But the critique of the decision as politically ...

JURIST Guest Columnist Stephen Vladeck of the University of Miami School of Law says that the US government's move to charge alleged "dirty bomber" Jose Padilla and potentially moot his pending appeal ...

The court-fashioned doctrine of "equitable mootness" has frequently been applied to bar appeals of bankruptcy court orders under circumstances where reversal or modification of an order could ...

Type to search articles, cases, and authors. Press ↵ to view all results. Those who review Supreme Court Order Lists with any frequency are used to seeing, at the beginning of each list, a series of ...

[JURIST] The US Supreme Court [official website; JURIST news archive] on Thursday ruled [opinion, PDF] 7-2 to dismiss Camreta v. Greene [Cornell LII backgrounder; JURIST report] for mootness. The ...

True the Vote, Inc. v. IRS, decided today by a D.C. Circuit panel, comes out of the IRS political targeting scandal: Instead of processing these applications in the normal course of IRS business, as ...