City of Garland v. Louton

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• declaratory judgment action to declare a referendum statute unconstitutional is not ripe if brought before election is held
• “A court has no jurisdiction to render an opinion on a controversy that is not yet ripe.”
• “A court has no jurisdiction to render an opinion on a controversy that is not yet ripe.”
• declaratory judgment action to declare a referendum statute unconstitutional is not ripe if brought before election is held
• “A court has no jurisdiction to render an opinion on a controversy that is not yet ripe.”
• upon finding that trial court lacked jurisdiction, appellate court can take no other action than to reverse the trial court judgment and dismiss the cause

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).