| 释义 |
mootness U.S. Law.|ˈmuːtnɪs|
[f. moot a. + -ness.]
Of a legal case or question: the fact or condition of being hypothetical.
1946Univ. Pennsylvania Law Rev. XCIV. 127 No distinction will be made between cases where only a single issue is alleged to be moot and those in which the entire case stands or falls on a determination of mootness or its absence. 1951Wolfson & Kurland Robertson & Kirkham's Jurisdiction of Supreme Court of U.S. xxxvi. 505 The Court may request counsel to discuss an issue as to mootness. 1955Univ. Pennsylvania Law Rev. CIII. 773 Since a court is deprived of jurisdiction when a case becomes moot, the fact of mootness can be raised at any time during the judicial proceeding and, once proved, will prevent decision of the case on the merits. 1960U.S. Supreme Court Reports 362 U.S. §577 If..George Parker's five-year quest for justice must end ignominiously in the limbo of mootness, surely something is badly askew in our system of criminal justice. 1970Harvard Law Rev. LXXXIII. 1674 This Note will explore a situation, labeled a mootness question, that has become a recurrent problem for the Supreme Court: where events subsequent to the judgment of the trial court have so affected the relations between the parties that the two conditions for justiciability relevant on appeal—adverse interest and effective remedy—have arguably been compromised. 1974Ibid. LXXXVIII. 373 (heading) The mootness doctrine in the Supreme Court. Ibid. 376 Mootness questions arise only once a court has determined, usually implicitly, that a litigant has standing to bring the action. |