General Motors Corp. v. New Castle County

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• recognizing that this general rule has exceptions, including “situations that are capable of repetition but evade review or matters of public importance”
• stating “[a] proceeding may become moot in one of two ways: if the legal issue in dispute is no longer amenable to a judicial resolution; or, if a party has been divested of standing.”
• “According to the mootness doctrine, although there may have been a justiciable controversy at the time the litigation was commenced, the action will be dismissed if that controversy ceases to exist.” (citing Glazer v. Pasternak, 693 A.2d 319, 320 (Del. 1997))
• “Two recognized exceptions to [the] mootness doctrine are situations that are capable of repetition but evade review and matters of public importance.”
• “A proceeding may become moot . . . if the legal issue in dispute is no longer amenable to a judicial resolution . . . .”
• “A proceeding may become moot in one of two ways: if the legal issue in dispute is no longer amenable to a judicial resolution; or, if a party has been divested of standing.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).