Latta v. Louisville Trust Co.

How courts have described this case

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• recognizing that a habeas petition may be moot when a prisoner is transferred outside of a jurisdiction and there is no respondent remaining in the jurisdiction with the power to release the petitioner
• recognizing that a habeas petition may be moot when a prisoner is transferred outside of a jurisdiction and there is no respondent remaining in the jurisdiction with the power to release the petitioner
• motion to dismiss converted to motion for summary judgment “because [r]espondent submitted materials which went outside the facts alleged in the petition”
• action moot when the named respondent on a writ of habeas corpus was the warden of the prison where the petitioner was held prior to being transferred to another facility

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).