State on the Information of Reed v. Reardon

How courts have described this case

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• holding that when some event occurs prior to the resolution of a controversy, which extinguishes the controversy, the issue is moot
• “[A] cause of action is moot when the question presented for decision seeks a judgment upon some matter which, if the judgment was rendered, would not have any practical effect upon any then existing controversy.”
• “[A] cause of action is moot when the question presented for decision seeks a judgment upon some matter which, if the judgment was rendered, would not have any practical effect upon any then existing controversy.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).