Earlier this month – citing the “virtually unflagging obligation” of an Article III appellate court to exercise its subject matter jurisdiction – the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals decried the ...

Mootness is not often the stuff of headlines. But a current dispute over Second Amendment rights and a New York City gun regulation has put mootness in the spotlight. Last January, the Supreme Court ...

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 ...

The doctrine of mootness is a strange creature in the universe of appellate review. Initially, "an appeal will be considered moot unless the rights of the parties will be directly affected by the ...

(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 ...

On June 5, the U.S. Supreme Court dismissed a writ of certiorari as improvidently granted, leaving unresolved a significant question regarding class-action certification under Federal Rule of Civil ...