Hutcheson v. Iowa District Court for Lee County

How courts have described this case

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• explaining that “the effect of action taken by a court without jurisdiction of the subject matter is that the action is void” and “remains subject to collateral attack,” including “in any proceeding in which the judgment is sought to be enforced”
• noting when the sentence is completed, the court has no remedy it can provide and the issue is moot
• finding a case was moot when the defendant had served his required seven days following a finding of contempt because he had already satisfied the judgment and sentence.
• “It is a well-settled rule that subject matter jurisdiction can be raised at any time, even for the first time on appeal.”
• “Subject matter jurisdiction is the court’s power to hear and determine cases of the general class to which a particular proceeding may belong.”
• action taken without subject matter jurisdiction is void

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).