Richardson v. Phillips

How courts have described this case

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• holding that claim for declaratory relief was moot
• affirming the trial court’s dismissal of a declaratory judgment claim where plaintiff “simply aimed to have the trial court decide the propriety of past conduct” by the defendant
• “Acase is considered moot if the parties’ dispute has been resolved, such that the issues involved have become academic or dead.”
• “[A] declaratory judgment will not be entertained where the rights of the parties have accrued and the plaintiff faces no risk of taking future undirected action.”
• a declaratory judgment is not permitted to \simply ... have the trial court decide the propriety of past conduct committed by [the defendant]\
• “[A] case is considered moot when a determination is sought on a matter which, when rendered, cannot have any practical effect on the existing controversy, or when the specific relief sought by the plaintiff is no longer available.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).