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Supreme Court· 1/14/1975

Sosna v. Iowa

Citations

  • 419 U.S. 393
  • 95 S. Ct. 553
  • 42 L. Ed. 2d 532
  • 1975 U.S. LEXIS 19
  • 19 Fed. R. Serv. 2d 925

How courts have described this case

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

  • holding that a class action may continue “even though the claim of the named plaintiff has become moot”
  • holding that a class action is not mooted by the “intervening resolution of the controversy as to the named plaintiffs”
  • holding that \the class of unnamed persons described in the certification acquire[s] a legal status separate from the interest asserted by [the representative]\
  • holding that a class action does not become moot merely because it has become moot as to a named plaintiff
  • holding that “domestic relations” have “long been regarded as a virtually exclusive province of the States” and “[t]he State ... has absolute right” to regulate marriage
  • holding that postcertification mootness of representative's claim does not render class members' claims moot

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Judges: Rehnquist, Burger, Douglas, Stewart, Blackmun, Powell, White, Marshall, Brennan

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1,457 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

Cites

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Other cases named Sosna v. Iowa

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