Aetna Life Insurance v. Haworth

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• deciding that, pursuant to statute's limitation to cases involving actual controversy, Act is operative only with respect to constitutional controversy
• holding that the Declaratory Judgment Act only authorizes courts to resolve actual controversies, not to render an advisory opinion given a hypothetical set of facts
• holding that we may not issue “an opinion advising what the law would be upon a hypothetical state of facts”
• holding that we may not issue “an opinion advising what the law would be upon a hypothetical state of facts”
• holding that the rule against advisory opinions prohibits courts from issuing “an opinión advising what the law would be upon a hypothetical state of facts.”
• deciding that, pursuant to statute’s limitation to cases involving actual controversy, Act is operative only with respect to constitutional controversy

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