Clyde Savings & Loan Ass'n v. May Department Stores

How courts have described this case

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• noting that central issue in action seeking declaratory relief is whether “there is a substantial controversy between the parties having adverse legal interests of sufficient immediacy and reality to warrant issuance of declaratory judgment”
• noting that central issue in action seeking declaratory relief is whether \there is a substantial controversy between the parties having adverse legal interests of sufficient immediacy and reality to warrant issuance of declaratory judgment\
• “actual controversy” requires a showing that the underlying issues are not moot or premature; a “court is not required to pass judgment on mere abstract propositions of law, to render an advisory opinion or to give legal advice as to future events”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).