Fleming v. Gutierrez

How courts have described this case

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

• observing that this court’s rulings must “have some effect in the real world” or they amount to impermissible advisory opinions (internal quotation marks omitted)
• explaining that whether the issues in an interlocutory appeal are “capable of repetition, yet evading review” is a separate question from whether the issues in the overall lawsuit are capable of doing so
• finding appeal challenging election moot “because the election ha[d] passed and we c[ould not] grant any effective relief”
• noting that we lack subject-matter jurisdiction when appeal is moot
• discussing “the exception to mootness for conduct capable of repetition yet evading review”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).