Court Opinion

ID: 3219109
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2016-06-30 20:00:56.304181+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:39:47.900350
License: Public Domain

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.