Opinion · Supreme Court of the United States

Calderon v. Moore

116 S. Ct. 2066

Type
Opinion
Court
Supreme Court of the United States
Jurisdiction
Federal
Date
1996-06-17
Topic
general

holding that an appeal should be dis- missed as moot when “a court of appeals cannot grant any effectual relief whatever” | holding that a habeas petition is not moot so long as the court could grant some relief | holding that an appeal should be dismissed as moot when “a court of appeals cannot grant any effectual relief VETERANS CONTRACTING GROUP v. UNITED STATES 3 whatever” | holding that “dismissals for lack of jurisdiction should be without prejudice” | stating that the availability of a “partial remedy” is “sufficient to prevent a case from being moot” (internal quotation marks omitted) | holding “a partial remedy” is sufficient to prevent a claim from being dismissed as moot | holding the “even the availability of a partial remedy is sufficient to prevent a case from being moot” | noting that a case is moot where no effectual relief whatsoever is possible | noting that a case is moot where no effectual relief whatsoever is possible | noting that an action is moot where a court "cannot grant any effectual relief whatever in favor of the [plaintiff]" and that "even the availability of a partial remedy" is sufficient to prevent mootness | “Simply stated, a case is moot when the issues presented are no longer ‘live’ or the parties .lack a legally cognizable interest in the outcome.” | an appeal should be dismissed as moot “when, by virtue of an intervening event, a court of appeals cannot grant ‘any effectual relief whatever’ .... ” (citation omitted) | an appeal should be dismissed as moot "when, by virtue of an intervening event, a court of appeals cannot grant `any effectual relief whatever' . . . ." (citation omitted) | “[E]ven the availability of a partial remedy is sufficient to prevent a case from being moot.” | appeal should be dismissed as moot when, by virtue of intervening event, court of appeals cannot grant any effectual relief in favor of appellant | “[E]ven the availability of a ‘partial remedy’ is ‘sufficient to prevent [a] case from being moot.’” | criminal appeal not moot if there is “any potential benefit” to defendant (quoting United States v. Trotter, 270 F.3d 1150, 1152 (7th Cir. 2001)) | criminal appeal not moot if there is “any potential benefit” to defendant (quoting United States v. Trotter, 270 F.3d 1150, 1152 (7th Cir. 2001)) | “A case is moot if a decision will neither presently affect the parties’ rights nor have a more-than- speculative chance of affecting them in the future.” | “[A]n appeal should ... be dismissed as moot when, by virtue of an intervening event, a court of appeals cannot grant any effectual relief whatever in favor of the appellant.” | case should be dismissed as moot “when, by virtue of an 10 || intervening event, [the Court] cannot grant any effectual relief whatever in favor of the 11 [Plaintiff]” | “an appeal should ... be dismissed as moot when, by virtue of an intervening event, a court of appeals cannot grant any effectual relief whatever in favor of the appellant” | “If there 4 is no longer a possibility that an appellant can obtain relief for his claim, that claim is moot and must 5 be dismissed for lack of jurisdiction.” | “[A]n appeal should therefore be- dismissed as moot when, by virtue of an intervening event, a court of appeals cannot grant any effectual relief whatever in favor of the appellant.” | “an appeal should ... be dismissed as moot when, by virtue of an intervening event, a court of appeals cannot grant any effectual relief whatever in favor of the appellant” | “[W]hen, by virtue of an intervening event, a court of appeals cannot grant ‘any effectual relief whatever’ in favor 27 of the appellant,” the appeal should be dismissed as moot. | “Federal courts may not ‘give opinions on moot questions or abstract propositions[.]’ ” | “an appeal should therefore be dismissed as moot when, by virtue of an intervening event, a court of appeals cannot grant any effectual relief whatever in favor of the appellant” (internal quotations and citation omitted) | “[F]

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