Pinson v. United States Department of Justice

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that a case is deemed \moot only when it is impossible for a court to grant any effectual relief whatever to the prevailing party.\
• rejecting argument that case was moot because no legal vehicle was available to achieve the ultimate relief sought in the suit
• “We have clarified that jurisdictional rules 14 pertain to the power of the court rather than to the rights or obligations of the parties.”
• “Here, as elsewhere, we decline to act as a court of first view, plumbing the Code’s complex depths in the first instance to assure ourselves that Transform is correct about its contention that no relief remains legally available.” (citation omitted) (internal quotation marks omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).