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U.S. Supreme Court

Oct. 16, 2015

High court considers mootness

Arguments focused closely on questions of mootness and Article III jurisdiction.

By Gautham Thomas
Daily Journal Staff Writer

The specter of handing defendants a simple tool to quash class actions loomed over oral arguments before the U.S. Supreme Court Wednesday morning in Campbell-Ewald v. Gomez, weaving in and out of the court's consideration as the justices focused generally on procedural questions of how and when to determine mootness.

In the suit, a potential class action, defendant Campbell-Ewald Co. argued t...

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