International Organization of Masters, Mates & Pilots v. Brown

How courts have described this case

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

• holding an election case not moot because “[rjespondent has run for office before and may well do so again”
• holding an election case not moot because \[r]espondent has run for office before and may well do so again\
• holding that union officer candidate’s challenge to union’s election rule was not moot because the candidate “has run for office before and may well do so again,” without addressing whether there was any evidence of the candidate’s actual intent to run again
• concluding that opening the channels of communication advances Title IV’s objectives because “in union elections, as in political elections, it is fair to assume that more, rather than less, freedom in the exchange of views will contribute to the democratic process.”
• holding that union officer candidate’s challenge to union’s election rule was not moot because the candidate “has run for office before and may well do so again,” without addressing whether there was any evidence of the candidate’s actual intent to run again
• finding that a union member’s post-election challenge to a refusal to distribute campaign mailings was not moot, in part because the member had “run for office and may well do so again”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).