Where an applicant for U.S. citizenship brought an appeal after the district court granted the government’s motion to dismiss his suit against the government seeking a decision on his naturalization application, a proceeding under Section 1447(b) does not become moot ...

Tagged with: jurisdiction mootness Naturalization Application

Where a potential candidate for state office challenged the state’s ballot-access requirements for independent candidates, the state legislature amended the challenged statute to accord with the petition-filing deadline that the candidate had sought, so no controversy remained and the appeal ...

Tagged with: Ballot-Access Requirements Independent Candidates mootness

Where civil detainees challenged a Minnesota sex-offender policy that restricted their internet and media access, arguing that the policy violated their constitutional rights including a right to be well-informed voters and seeking a preliminary injunction so that they could prepare ...

Tagged with: civil rights Minnesota Law mootness Sex-Offender Restriction

  Where a mother, who had executed a consent form and a power of attorney form through an adoption agency, challenged a temporary custody order to the potential adoptive parents of her child, the adoption proceeding remained pending and direct ...

Tagged with: adoption Child Custody Family Law mootness

  Where appellants sought to compel a prosecutor to recuse himself and appoint a special prosecutor, the prosecutor’s retirement from his position rendered the appeal moot, and the appeal is dismissed because reversal would give the appellants no remedy and ...

Tagged with: Criminal Law mootness prosecutor disqualification

Where a former employee challenged a district court’s summary-judgment order and the injunctive relief granted in a dispute over the parties’ non-compete agreement, the injunction expired while the appeal was pending, and nothing remained to be resolved between the parties, ...

Tagged with: contracts Enforceability mootness Non-Compete Agreement

Where a trial court’s grant of summary judgment in a probate dispute disposed of all claims brought by the counterclaim plaintiffs, the counterclaim defendants did not object to the voluntary dismissal, so there was no live controversy, and the appeal ...

Tagged with: Appellate Practice Counterclaims mootness voluntary dismissal

Pursuant to a plea agreement, defendant pleaded guilty to identity theft and was sentenced to 30 months’ imprisonment; the district court did not impose a term of supervised release. On appeal, defendant asserted procedural error and substantive unreasonableness. Where defendant ...

Tagged with: Criminal Law identity theft mootness Substantively Unreasonable Sentence

Where appellant, who was appointed as a presidential elector by the State of Minnesota was deemed to have vacated his position when he tried to vote for candidates other than those to whom he was pledged, challenged the appointment of ...

Tagged with: Elections Elector Substitution Minnesota Law mootness

Hillesheim v. Holiday Stationstores, Inc. (MLW No. 72108/Case No. 17-3151 – 9 pages) (U.S. Court of Appeals, 8th Circuit, Stras, J.)

Tagged with: civil rights disability discrimination mootness

Williams v. Department of Corrections (MLW No. 71933/Case No. WD81211 – 4 pages) (Missouri Court of Appeals, Western District, Mitchell, J.)

Tagged with: Criminal Law mootness Post-Conviction Relief