Video Tutorial Services, Inc. v. MCI Telecommunications Corporation

How courts have described this case

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• noting that plaintiff bears the burden of demonstrating that a controversy is capable of repetition yet evading review
• noting that plaintiff bears the burden of demonstrating that a controversy is capable of repetition yet evading review
• explaining that “speculat[ing]” that “lightning may strike” again is not enough
• “An interlocutory appeal from a temporary stay no longer in effect . . . is the paradigm of a moot appeal.”
• “We are. . . reluctant to deny the district court deference in cases like this, where it has not yet had the chance to determine the validity of the arbitration clause at issue or the arbitrability of the dispute itself.”’
• “[W]e have no jurisdiction over moot controversies.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).