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· 7/29/2015

Lopez, Alfonso

How courts have described this case

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

  • finding that “the fear that the challenged conduct may recur in some unstated form at an unknown time and place” is insufficient and noting that federal courts “do not have the power to ‘advise’ potential parties about the lawfulness of potential actions that have not and may never occur.”
  • “[A] a case becomes moot when the reviewing court can no longer offer any effective relief to the claimant.”
  • “[A] case becomes moot when the reviewing court can no longer offer any effective relief to the claimant.”
  • “an injunction cannot be fashioned when the prospect of future injury is only speculative; again, there must be a likelihood of substantial and immediate irreparable injury”
  • “Mootness demands that there be something about the case that remains alive, present, real, and immediate so that a federal court can provide redress in some palpable way.”
  • a justiciable case or controversy must be present “at all stages of review.”

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