Petition of the day
By Kate Howard
on Nov 10, 2016
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.
Posted in Cases in the Pipeline
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/