The Humane Society of the United States v. Environmental Protection Agency, Lee M. Thomas, Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency

How courts have described this case

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• applying the capable of repetition but evading review exception because case involved permits that lasted for one year, a “period all too frequently insufficient for litigation of serious issues to 6 a conclusion”
• “The one-year life span of the permits simply did not allow completion of the process prior to their demise.”
• “A controversy concerning an initial permit . . . may simply continue in the context of succeeding permits.” (alteration, internal quotation marks, and citation omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).