Opinion ID: 483888
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Heading: The Immediate Disqualification Amendment

Text: 13 Local 186 attacks the immediate disqualification provision as a bill of attainder, an ex post facto law, and an unconstitutional burden on the right of appeal. The case before us is Martin Fry's disqualification. No other union employee has been disqualified. A moot action is one where the issues are no longer alive or the parties lack a legally cognizable interest in the outcome. Sample v. Johnson, 771 F.2d 1335, 1338 (9th Cir.1985), cert. denied, --- U.S. ----, 106 S.Ct. 1206, 89 L.Ed.2d 319 (1986). The challenge to Martin Fry's disqualification pending his appeal is moot because his conviction was affirmed on appeal. See Golden v. Zwickler, 394 U.S. 103, 108-10, 89 S.Ct. 956, 959-61, 22 L.Ed.2d 113 (1969). 14 Local 186 argues that Fry's disqualification comes within the capable of repetition but evading review exception to the mootness doctrine. This exception applies when (1) the challenged action is of limited duration, too short to be litigated fully prior to its cessation or expiration; and (2) there is a reasonable expectation that the same complaining party will be subjected to the same action again. Wiggins v. Rushen, 760 F.2d 1009, 1011 (9th Cir.1985). The exception does not apply here. Martin Fry's appeal lasted almost three years, time enough for the proper parties to litigate fully the validity of the immediate disqualification provision.