Couey v. Atkins

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that the Oregon state constitution does not require dismissal of a case based on the justiciability doctrine of mootness
• holding that a court may hear ‘public actions or cases that involve matters of public interest that might otherwise have been considered nonjusticiable under prior case law’
• holding that a court may hear \public actions or cases that involve matters of public interest that might otherwise have been considered nonjusticiable under prior case law\
• recognizing that ORS 14.175 “leaves it to the court to determine whether it is appropriate to adjudicate an other- wise moot case under the circumstances of each case”
• holding that cases involving issues of public interest that are “likely to evade judicial review under the standard set out in ORS 14.175” are justiciable even if they are moot
• explaining that “likely” means “probable that a similar challenge will evade judicial review in the future”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).