voluntary-cessation

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25A564 Baoming Chen v. Kristi Noem, Secretary of Homeland Security, et al. Second Circuit 2025-11-14 Application agency-action circuit-split immigration-law judicial-review mootness voluntary-cessation Whether a "voluntary cessation of offensive conduct will only moot litigation if it is clear that the defendant has not changed course simply to depri…
24-1290 Katie Sczesny, et al. v. Philip Murphy, Individually and in His Official Capacity as the Governor of New Jersey, et al. Third Circuit 2025-06-17 Denied Response Waived constitutional-challenge declaratory-judgment employment-termination executive-fiat public-health voluntary-cessation 1. Does the voluntary cessation doctrine require a defendant to provide affirmative assurance that the challenged conduct will not recur, particularly…
23-1009 Leisl M. Carpenter v. Thomas J. Vilsack, Secretary of Agriculture, et al. Tenth Circuit 2024-03-14 Denied Amici (2)Response Waived administrative-law civil-rights equal-protection mootness race-discrimination standing standing-doctrine statutory-interpretation voluntary-cessation Section 1005 of the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 established a debt relief program for "socially disadvantaged" farmers and ranchers. The United S…
23-627 Chad Parker, et al. v. Governor of Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit 2023-12-11 Denied Response Waived capable-of-repetition civil-rights constitutional-challenge contact-tracing covid-mask-mandate due-process mootness pandemic-restrictions privacy-rights standing standing-doctrine voluntary-cessation 1. Is this constitutional challenge to the Pennsylvania "mask mandate" moot when the restriction is capable of repetition yet so short in duration tha…
22-1201 Captain Mariella Creaghan v. Lloyd J. Austin, III, Secretary of Defense, et al. District of Columbia 2023-06-12 Denied Response Waived appellate-procedure civil-procedure due-process government-policy judicial-review legal-standard mootness-doctrine standing voluntary-cessation Whether under the voluntary cessation exception to mootness the government must satisfy the 'absolutely clear' standard if it maintains the authority …
22-837 Charles Clark, III, et al. v. Phil Murphy, Governor of New Jersey, et al. Third Circuit 2023-03-03 Denied Response Waived capable-of-repetition constitutional-claims evading-review government-defendant government-defendants inter-circuit-conflict judicial-review mootness voluntary-cessation Whether the government must satisfy the 'absolutely clear' standard under the voluntary-cessation exception to mootness
22-586 Kimberly Beemer, et al. v. Gretchen Whitmer, Governor of Michigan, et al. Sixth Circuit 2022-12-27 Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-challenge covid-19-restrictions due-process emergency-powers free-speech fundamental-rights judicial-review mootness standing voluntary-cessation Is this constitutional challenge to the Michigan Governor's emergency restrictions that directly infringed fundamental rights moot when the restrictio…
22-181 Resurrection School, et al. v. Elizabeth Hertel, Director, Michigan Department of Health and Human Services, et al. Sixth Circuit 2022-08-29 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived capable-of-repetition-yet-evading-review circuit-conflict constitutional-claims government-defendants judicial-review mootness mootness-doctrine presumption-of-good-faith voluntary-cessation Whether government defendants must satisfy the 'absolutely clear' standard under the voluntary cessation exception to mootness
22-182 Flom Disposal, Inc. v. Goodhue County, Minnesota, et al. Eighth Circuit 2022-08-29 Denied Response Waived antidiscrimination-doctrine competition competition 22-181" competition-doctrine constitutional-claims discrimination dormant-commerce-clause government-defendants incineration inter-circuit-conflict interstate-commerce judicial-review landfill mootness-doctrine voluntary-cessation waste-disposal Whether under the voluntary cessation exception to Are disposing of garbage by depositing it in a landfill and disposing of garbage—the same garbage from the same sources—by incinerating it, competitor…
21-698 Butler County, Pennsylvania, et al. v. Tom Wolf, Governor of Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit 2021-11-12 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived capable-of-repetition civil-rights constitutional-rights covid-19 due-process government-response mootness-doctrine pandemic-response pandemic-restrictions standing takings voluntary-cessation Whether the doctrine of mootness applies
21-5334 Cecile A. Brown v. United States, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-08-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process government-defendants governmental-defendants judicial-review legal-presumption presumption standing supreme-court-doctrine voluntary-cessation Whether the doctrine of voluntary cessation applies less stringently to governmental defendants than to private ones?
20-538 Rentberry, Inc., et al. v. City of Seattle, Washington Ninth Circuit 2020-10-23 Denied Amici (3)Response Waived civil-rights first-amendment mootness nominal-damages section-1983 standing voluntary-cessation Whether government defendants are subject to the same voluntary-cessation standard as private defendants
19-7586 Sean M. Donahue v. Pennsylvania Civil Service Commission Pennsylvania 2020-02-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law case-or-controversy civil-procedure civil-rights civil-service due-process employment-law free-speech mootness public-employment ripeness standing statutory-interpretation veterans-rights voluntary-cessation Is the underlying case moot?
18-1487 Mercer County Board of Education, et al. v. Elizabeth Deal, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-05-30 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) case-or-controversy circuit-split civil-procedure exposure imminent-injury injunctive-relief mootness ripeness school school-program standing voluntary-cessation Whether the Fourth Circuit erred in finding that Jessica Roe has standing to seek an injunction against a school program to which she has no ongoing e…
18-1108 Stephanie C. Stucky v. Dwight Takeno, et al. Hawaii 2019-02-25 Denied Response Waived administrative-law administrative-procedure civil-procedure collective-bargaining due-process labor-relations mootness prohibited-practice prohibited-practices voluntary-cessation Petitioner did not receive due process when the Prohibited Practice Complaint was dismissed as moot, despite the respondents voluntarily ceasing viola…