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Thepetition of the day is:

16-333

Issues:(1) Whether the government can seek to moot a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of a statute by adopting a new non-enforcement policy during the pendency of litigation; (2) whether the government can later moot by voluntary cessation a subsequently filed lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of a statute under which the government publicly threatened a party with prosecution; and (3) when a district court makes underlying findings of fact in the course of adjudicating a claim under the voluntary cessation doctrine, under what standard of review those findings should be examined on appeal.

Cases: Brown v. Buhman

Recommended Citation: Kate Howard, Petition of the day, SCOTUSblog (Nov. 10, 2016, 12:00 AM), https://www.scotusblog.com/2016/11/petition-of-the-day-1028/