American Civil Liberties Union v. United States Conference of Catholic Bishops

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that a challenge becomes moot when a “government regulatory scheme[] [has] expired or been effectively repealed”
• concluding that a request for nominal damages was waived by not arguing the matter in the party’s brief
• stating that “[i]f events have transpired to render a court opinion merely advisory, Article III considerations require dismissal of the case”
• stating that the capable-of-repetition doctrine applies only to “exceptional situations,” such as “inherently transitory” claims like pregnancies or elections
• explaining that 6 voluntary cessation doctrine is concerned with manipulative litigants who alter their behavior “long enough to secure a dismissal and then reinstating it immediately after”
• explaining that mootness arises when “a court cannot provide meaningful relief to the allegedly aggrieved party,” with the “clearest” example being “cases where the only relief requested is an injunction”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).