Deeper Life Christian Fellowship, Inc. v. Thomas Sobol, in His Official Capacity as Commissioner of Education of the State of New York

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that, though injury could happen “in the next few years,” it was “not imminent” and “not sufficiently likely to recur”
• noting that opinion of appellate court on state law issue is binding in absence of “other persuasive data that the highest court of the state would decide otherwise”
• where a district court issued a preliminary injunction and the plaintiff thereafter amended the complaint, the Court “considered only the original complaint” on appeal
• “It is well-established that the highest court of a state has the final word on the meaning of state law.”
• “Because there is no discretion . . . to grant permits to religious groups, appellant’s alleged injury is not caused by a grant of unbridled discretion.”
• “A case in federal court must be alive at all stages of 11 judicial proceedings, not only at the point at which a suit was originally filed.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).