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Constitutional limitations and justiciability

Standing, ripeness, mootness, and political question can stop the case before merits.

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Q14293 / key B

Mootness Ends the Streaming Fight

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Q14294 / key B

State Ground Ends Federal Review

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Q20714 / key D

Taxpayer Standing Has a Narrow Door

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Q22611 / key B

Speculative Chill Is Not Ripe

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Gold Key / Q14293

GK-CONLAW-MOOT-01

A federal question still needs a live case or controversy; mootness removes jurisdiction even when the issue sounds constitutional.

Gold Key / Q14293

GK-CONLAW-MOOT-02

Capable of repetition requires a reasonable expectation of recurrence, not a remote possibility of appellate reversal.

Silver Key / Q14293

SK-CONLAW-MOOT-RELIEF-01

For mootness, ask first whether the court can still give the plaintiff the exact relief requested.

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GK-CONLAW-STATE-GROUNDS-01

When a state supreme court clearly rests its judgment on a state constitutional ground that is independent of federal law and adequate to support the result, the United States Supreme Court dismisses rather than decides the federal issue.

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Mootness Trigger

A plaintiff seeks an injunction to resume an event, but the event ends before the case is heard. What is the first justiciability issue?

Mootness. The court must ask whether it can still grant effective relief.

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Plain State Ground

A state supreme court discusses federal law, then says its state constitution independently requires the same judgment. What should the United States Supreme Court do?

Dismiss the writ because the judgment rests on an independent and adequate state ground.

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01 Judicial Review

02 Jurisdiction of Courts

03 Constitutional limitations and justiciability

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Answering the constitutional merits when the court cannot hear the claim.

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