City of Clinton v. Southern Paramedic Services, Inc., Gary Padget

Summary

The court dismissed the appeal as moot because the ordinances challenged in the declaratory-judgment action had been repealed before the circuit court entered its order. Neither the capable-of-repetition exception nor the significant-public-interest exception applied because any future dispute depended on speculative future ordinances and franchise arrangements. The court also held that the circuit court’s order was advisory and ineffective because the case was already moot when that order was entered.