Edward Crowell v. State Public Defender v. Iowa District Court for Linn County

How courts have described this case

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• describing circumstances when a nonparty may challenge a ruling through a petition for writ of certiorari
• allowing appellate courts to consider an appeal as though it was filed as a certiorari action
• explaining our discretionary power to review actions by writ of certiorari
• “If an appeal no longer presents a justiciable controversy because the disputed issue has become academic or nonexistent, the appeal is ordinarily deemed moot.”
• “If an appeal no longer presents a justiciable controversy because the disputed issue has become academic or nonexistent, the appeal is ordinarily deemed moot.”
• “Although no party challenges 6 this court’s jurisdiction in this case, an appellate court has responsibility sua sponte to police its own jurisdiction.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).