Court Opinion

ID: 9788444
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-31 00:54:08.691832+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:37:11.097376
License: Public Domain

WALTERS, J.,
concurring in the result.
I agree with the result announced in the Court’s decision but I arrive there through another, more direct and shorter course of reasoning. In my view, the district court should be sustained on the ground that the issues raised in the appeal are moot. During the oral argument before this Court, the appellants’ counsel confirmed that the appellants have received “in one form or another” the three documents that were the subject of the petition in the district court from which the appeal was taken. Because the appellants have already received those documents, it is meaningless for this Court or the district court to consider any further whether the appellants can be provided with the relief sought by the petition. Consequently, I would dismiss the appeal as moot.