Opinion ID: 172833
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Heading: The District Court's Dismissal of SMDI's Appeal

Text: Despite their failure to obtain a stay pending appeal, SMDI appealed the bankruptcy court's decision confirming the Joint Plan and rejecting SMDI's plan to the district court. ConsumerInfo and Mr. Jubber jointly moved to dismiss the appeal for mootness, arguing that the district court could not grant [SMDI] any effective relief in this appeal and, even if it could, such relief would be inequitable. (Appx. at 840.) Before the district court, Appellees' counsel argued, inter alia, that the case was moot because the trustee had taken many steps to effectuate the Joint Plan that could not be undone; in his words, the eggs can't be unscrambled. ( Id. at 1196.) The district court dismissed the appeal, finding that, in light of the steps taken to implement the Joint Plan, SMDI's appeal had become both constitutionally and equitably moot. This timely appeal followed.