In Matter of Texxon Petrochemicals, L.L.C., 67 F.4th 259 (5th Cir. 2023), the Fifth Circuit held that even if an appeal is equitably moot, the appellate court nonetheless has appellate jurisdiction to ...

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 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 ...

It's the season for new formalist federal courts scholarship to appear on SSRN. I've previously mentioned my forthcoming piece on severability. But I'm also very proud to share two new pieces written ...

In their Corporate Litigation column, Joseph M. McLaughlin and Shannon K. McGovern write: “Mootness fees” to plaintiffs' counsel after a voluntary dismissal have become a standard feature of deal ...

A Virginia Supreme Court case involving the Daily Press and the sealing of court records helps better define the so-called “mootness doctrine” in Virginia, according to the attorney who represented ...

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 ...

(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 ...

(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 ...

There are no cases addressing the mootness issue arising when the trial or grand jury session for which a reporter was subpoenaed has concluded. It should be noted, however, that the Supreme Court ...

“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 ...