Legislative Council v. Knowles

How courts have described this case

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

• providing “public interest exception” applies to “issues whose importance and ability to evade review justify an immediate decision, despite technical mootness”
• describing the issue as of “great public importance” because it went “to the heart of the delicate constitutional balance between the powers of two coordinate branches of government”
• “More significant is that the complaints assert no particular service-related acts or functions as a basis for proceeding against the [Legislative Council] or its individual legislator-members.”
• “We readily acknowledge the legitimacy of the governor’s expressed interest in preserving the broad powers of litigation ‘that, in essence, makes him the strong executive that the framers intended.’ ”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).