E.I. DUPONT DE NEMOURS & CO., Movant-Plaintiff-Appellant, v. INVISTA B v. and Invista S.A.R.L., Respondents-Defendants-Appellees

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• granting vacatur where “this appeal has been mooted through no fault or machination” of the appellant
• declining to apply the doctrine where “the cessation by the alleged wrongdoer was not a unilateral action taken for the deliberate purpose of evading a possible adverse decision by this court” (quotation marks and citation omitted)
• voluntary cessation doctrine “aims to eliminate the incentive for a defendant to strategically alter its conduct in order to prevent or undo a ruling adverse to its interest”
• The doctrine of voluntary cessation “aims to eliminate the incentive for a defendant to strategically alter its conduct in order to prevent or undo a Ruling adverse to its interest.”

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