City News & Novelty, Inc. v. City of Waukesha

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that no controversy existed where party had exited the adult business and asserted no plan to reenter
• holding that challenge to adult business licensing determination was moot where plaintiff “has ceased to operate as an adult business and no longer seeks to renew its license”
• finding that dismissing the case as moot will not “reward an arguable manipulation of the Court’s jurisdiction”
• stating certiorari granted to resolve this issue but petition dismissed because the case was moot
• observing that the “speculation” that a “business ‘could again decide to operate’ . . . standing alone . . . did not shield the case from a mootness de- termination” (quoting Erie v. Pap’s A.M., 529 U.S. 277, 287 (2000))
• dismissing an appeal as moot when “it is [the petitioner], not its adversary, whose conduct saps the controversy of vitality”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).