Hamilton v. McAuliffe

How courts have described this case

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• noting that justiciability is a prerequisite to disposition of a request for declaratory relief
• recognizing the “well settled” requirement for termination of the controversy
• “[T]he declaratory judgment process is not available to decide purely theoretical questions or questions that may arise, ... or questions which may have become moot, ... or merely abstract questions ____”
• Declaratory judgment may not be granted when it would not serve a useful purpose.
• “That the declaratory judgment process should not be used where a declaration would not serve a useful purpose or terminate a controversy is ... well settled.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).