Case ID: f-appx_667/html/0364-01.html
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Author: {"author": "Morton I. Greenberg, Circuit Judge", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Fa.Lu. CIOLI, Appellant v. Laura ZUCHOWSKI, Director, Vermont Service Center; DIrector United States Citizenship and Immigration Services; Secretary United States Department of Homland Security; Attorney General United States of America
    No. 15-3812
    United States Court of Appeals, Third Circuit.
    Submitted under Third Circuit LAR 34.1(a) June 14, 2016
    DATED: June 30, 2016
    Simone Bertollini, Esq., Clifton, NJ, Paul F. O’Reilly, Esq., New York, NY, for Plaintiff-Appellant.
    Victor M. Mercado-Santana, Esq., United States Department of Justice, Office of Immigration Litigation, Washington, DC, for Defendant-Appellee.
    BEFORE: AMBRO, JORDAN, and GREENBERG, Circuit Judges
   JUDGMENT ORDER

Morton I. Greenberg, Circuit Judge

This matter comes on before this Court on an appeal from an order of the District Court entered on November 20, 2015, denying a motion for a preliminary injunction. While the appeal has been pending, the District Court on June 16, 2016, entered an order dismissing the complaint for lack of subject matter jurisdiction. In the circumstances, even if we held that the District Court should not have denied the motion for the preliminary injunction we cannot remand the case to the District Court with instructions to enter the injunction because the case is no longer pending in that Court. Moreover, if we affirmed the denial of the motion for a preliminary injunction our order would have no consequence as the order affirming the denial would not compel the defendants to do anything. Consequently, the appeal is moot and therefore we dismiss appeal. The parties will bear their own costs on this appeal.