'Liu' adds a little known arrow into the quiver of parents who have petitioned Family Court for child support and are then, not uncommonly, relegated to delayed determinations beyond statutory ...

The Ninth Circuit on June 15, 2022 issued its long-awaited en banc decision in Brach v. Newsom, holding that the challenge to the California’s Covid-19 restrictions on in-person schooling is now moot.

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 ...

The doctrine of mootness is a strange creature in the universe of appellate review. Initially, "an appeal will be considered moot unless the rights of the parties will be directly affected by the ...

Much like Frankenstein’s monster, the mootness doctrine is a mangled mess of stitched-together exceptions and tests lurking about federal courthouses. But this Halloween weekend, the Supreme Court has ...