Cicilline v. Almond

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that the Court will not adjudicate a moot case because “whenever a court acts without the presence of a justiciable case or controversy, its judicial power to do so is at its weakest ebb”
• explaining that the Court will evaluate the merits of cases that are “of extreme public importance, which are capable of repetition but which evade review” (quoting Sullivan v. Chafee, 703 A.2d 748, 752 (R.I. 1997))

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).