Martin-Trigona v. Baxter

How courts have described this case

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• explaining case is moot when it “no longer presents a justiciable controversy because the issues involved have become academic or nonexistent”
• dismissing appeal as moot because “Martin– Trigona did not challenge the caucus system generally, but only as it was being conducted in 1988, specifically” and “nothing [the court] could do now would affect the 1988 caucuses”
• “A moot case is one that no longer presents a justiciable controversy because the issues involved have become academic or nonexistent. The test is whether a judgment, if rendered, would have any practical legal effect upon the existing controversy.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).