Earlier this week, BGE had filed a motion to cancel Plaintiff's request for a preliminary hearing, by voluntarily agreeing to stop installing the exterior regulators without written consent,Vignarajah ...

The underlying action in Xoom concerned the merger through which PayPal acquired Xoom Corporation. The merger closed in late 2015, after receiving near-unanimous stockholder approval. The action got ...

Seyfarth Synopsis: A SDNY judge dismissed a website accessibility lawsuit finding that the company mooted the allegations in the complaint by remediating the accessibility barriers and that the Court ...

It's the season for new formalist federal courts scholarship to appear on SSRN. I've previously mentioned my forthcoming piece on severability. But I'm also very proud to share two new pieces written ...

Mootness and Ethics: Meeting the Client’s Objectives While mootness may occur in many civil and criminal contexts, this article focuses largely on its application in Family Court appeals—a frequent ...

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In their Corporate Litigation column, Joseph M. McLaughlin and Shannon K. McGovern write: “Mootness fees” to plaintiffs' counsel after a voluntary dismissal have become a standard feature of deal ...

True the Vote, Inc. v. IRS, decided today by a D.C. Circuit panel, comes out of the IRS political targeting scandal: Instead of processing these applications in the normal course of IRS business, as ...

(Reuters) - If you’re a regular reader of my column, you won’t be surprised by the central finding in a newly-posted draft law review article by law professors Matthew Cain and Steven Solomon of ...

Recent discussions of the Supreme Court’s upcoming term have understandably focused on the implications of the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg — and the seemingly inevitable confirmation of Judge ...

The Supreme Court declined to grant certiorari on the substantive constitutional issue in United States v. Sanchez-Gomez — the validity of a district-wide policy permitting United States marshals to ...