moot case

Thomas, Alito, and Gorsuch now wish to exploit a moot case to award themselves immense power to override state courts and state constitutions to restrict mail voting and other reforms.

But the 11th Circuit said that a request for nominal damages did not turn a moot case into a live one.

“I write separately to note that, upon preliminary review of the matter, it appears that petitioner has presented … a colorable argument that the Commonwealth Court … inserted an undisputed issue into an otherwise moot case,” Baer wrote.

After three years' required apprenticeship in an Athens law office, he capped his bar exam by successfully arguing a moot case before a panel that included Greek Supreme Court justices.

A moot case has been defined as "one which seeks to get a judgment on a pretended controversy, when in reality there is none, or a decision in advance about a right before it has been actually asserted and contested, or a judgment upon some matter which, when rendered, for any reason, cannot have any practical legal effect upon a then existing controversy."