The court-fashioned doctrine of "equitable mootness" has frequently been applied to bar appeals of bankruptcy court orders under circumstances where reversal or modification of an order could ...

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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 ...

Corrective Action and Compliance Can End the Case: when fixing the problem ends the lawsuit—for public employers. In a significant and practical win for public employers, the First Circuit reaffirmed ...

As Howard Wasserman notes, in an intriguing post at PrawfsBlawg, a panel of the Ninth Circuit has ordered briefing on whether one national injunction renders the appeal of another one moot. It's ...

Type to search articles, cases, and authors. Press ↵ to view all results. At Monday’s oral argument in Genesis HealthCare Corp. v. Symczyk, the Court considered whether a Fair Labor Standards Act ...

(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 ...

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 ...

Despite warnings about the future of the equitable mootness doctrine, courts continue to deny review of challenges to Chapter 11 plans that are confirmed and consummated. Two recent circuit-level ...

Type to search articles, cases, and authors. Press ↵ to view all results. Recent discussions of the Supreme Court’s upcoming term have understandably focused on the implications of the death of ...

(Reuters) - The shareholder firm Rigrodsky Law may come to rue a pair of lawsuits it filed inviting judicial scrutiny of a controversial business model that rewards firms for accomplishing nothing ...

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