United States v. Alaska Steamship Co.
Citations
- 253 U.S. 113
- 40 S. Ct. 448
- 64 L. Ed. 808
- 1920 U.S. LEXIS 1453
Syllabus
<p>This court will determine only matters actually in controversy essential' to the decision of the particular case before it. P. 115.</p> <p>In a suit in which the Interstate Commerce Commission was temporarily enjoined from requiring interstate and water carriers to use certain forms of bills of lading in domestic and export transportation, upon the ground that the Commission lacked power to prescribe them, held, that, since the Transportation Act of Feby. 28, 1920, ■passed pending the interlocutory appeal, contained provisions which would necessitate changes in both forms of bills, the case had become moot, and the court could not pass upon the Commission’s authority, but would reverse the order of injunction, no longer needed to protect the complainants against the order of the Commission involved in the suit, without prejudice to the right to assail any such order adopted after the new legislation, and without costs to either party. Id.</p>
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- moot question cannot be decided, “[h]ow-ever convenient it might be,” because court “is not empowered to decide moot questions”
- “the question of mootness is a federal one which a federal court must resolve before it assumes jurisdiction”
- “Where by an act of the parties, or a subsequent law, the existing controversy has come to an end, the case becomes moot and should be treated accordingly.”
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