Court Opinion

ID: 9464706
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Date Created: 2023-08-04 23:40:20.372714+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:38:46.177568
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ELY, Circuit Judge,
concurring and dissenting:
I concur in the majority’s construction of the Assimilative Crimes Act; however, could I act alone, I would hold that the appeal is moot. This, I would do despite the position that the parties take on the issue of mootness. See DeFunis v. Odegaard, 416 U.S. 312, 315, 94 S.Ct. 1704, 40 L.Ed.2d 164 (1974). It is quite understandable that they desire a definitive holding and have thus agreed that the appeal is not moot. My disagreement with them, as well as with my Brothers, is founded upon my interpretation of the controlling authorities. See Weinstein v. Bradford, 423 U.S. 147, 149, 96 S.Ct. 347, 46 L.Ed.2d 350 (1975) (in absence of a class action, to avoid mootness under the “capable of repetition, yet evading review” doctrine, the particular litigant must demonstrate a reasonable possibility of repetition as to him personally; possibility of repetition as to others is irrelevant); Board of School Comm’rs v. Jacobs, 420 U.S. 128, 129, 95 S.Ct. 848, 43 L.Ed.2d 74 (1975); Gerstein v. Pugh, 420 U.S. 103, 110-11 n.11, 95 S.Ct. 854 (1975); Sosna v. Iowa, 419 U.S. 393, 399, 95 S.Ct. 553, 42 L.Ed.2d 532 (1975); DeFunis v. Odegaard, supra, 416 U.S. at 319, 94 S.Ct. 1704; North Carolina v. Rice, 404 U.S. 244, 247-48, 92 S.Ct. 402, 30 L.Ed. 413 (1971) (holding moot a challenge to the legality of a sentence already served, refusing to invoke collateral consequences doctrine, which applies only to attacks upon a conviction itself).