Charline Applicant P. v. Conn. Dep't of Children

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a case was not equitably moot because, among other things, granting the requested relief “would [not] upset the [settlement] or … cause the remainder of the plan to collapse” and the amounts involved in the suit would not “destabilize the financial basis of the settlement”
• “Courts have rarely analyzed the source of their authority to refuse to hear an appeal on equitable mootness grounds.”
• “Courts have rarely analyzed the source of their authority to refuse to hear an appeal on equitable mootness grounds.”
• “Mootness is a threshold issue that prevents a federal court from hearing a case where there is no live case or controversy as required by Article III of our Constitution.”
• application 2 of equitable mootness to approval of asset sales

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).