Prince George's Cty. v. Concerned Citizens

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that federal courts are to decide only “actual controversies . . . and not to give opinions upon moot questions or abstract propositions” (emphases added)
• emphasizing that federal courts are to decide only “actual controversies by a judgment which can be carried into effect, and not to give opinions upon moot questions or abstract propositions” (citations and internal quotation marks omitted)
• emphasizing that federal courts are to decide only “actual controversies by a judgment which can be carried into effect, and not to give opinions upon moot questions or abstract propositions” (citations and internal quotation marks omitted)
• “[T]his court has consistently held that the appeal of a preliminary injunction is moot where the effective time period of the injunction has passed.”
• issue not properly justiciable where decision either way cannot effect rights of parties
• injunctive relief mooted, remaining penalty provisions severable and subject of separate action

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).