Ott v. Boston Edison Co.

How courts have described this case

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

• “A potential claim for attorneys’ fees standing alone does not justify deciding a moot case.”
• “This court should not encourage the appellate pursuit of an issue ... in which the appellant’s only appropriate interest is academic”
• “A potential claim for attorneys’ fees standing alone does not justify deciding a moot case.”
• \Our appellate system has the capacity to move rapidly when circumstances warrant . . .\
• claim moot where shareholders already had attained, through another process, objective sought in claim for declaratory relief
• court typically declines to decide moot issue not fully briefed

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).