CT Freedom Alliance, LLC v. Dept. of Education

Summary

The court dismissed the appeal for lack of subject matter jurisdiction because repeal of the school mask mandate eliminated any practical relief the court could provide. It held that neither the capable-of-repetition exception nor the voluntary-cessation exception preserved the otherwise moot appeal, because recurrence of the challenged governmental actions was speculative and the defendants credibly represented that they had no present intention to reinstate the mandate. The court therefore did not reach the merits of the plaintiffs’ statutory or constitutional challenges.