Congress and the President acted very quickly to pass legislation that made the Warren case moot.

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That's why we're not going to declare this case moot.

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Which is what makes the WTO case all rather moot really.

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"There is at least a suggestion that her case is now moot, even if she had standing when it was originally filed, " said David Levine, a professor at Hastings College of the Law in California.

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The Court could uphold the individual mandate, in which case the point is moot.

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But the motion became moot when CBS informed him that the episode about Mr. Gerazounis's case would not be aired.

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While the Justice Department has urged the justices not to take the case, citing the recent criminal indictment as evidence the issue is moot, Padilla's attorneys said they should hear it due to the important constitutional issues involved.

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The court was very careful today to say, We're not going to hear this case, but we're also not going to say it's moot.

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