Lloyd v. Board of Supervisors of Elections

How courts have described this case

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• noting that appellate courts do “not sit to give opinions on abstract propositions or moot questions, and appeals which present nothing else for decision are dismissed as a matter of course”
• dismissing appeal by candidate as moot, because the primary election had already concluded and “[t]he chronology of the case makes it apparent that nothing this Court could do, by reversal or otherwise, could undo or remedy that which has already occurred”
• Maryland Court of Appeals holding that question of mootness is generally based in Maryland on rule of decision that courts generally “... do not sit to decide abstract questions of law,” as opposed to being based on constitutional principles

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