O'BANION v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis

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3 state decisions

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1. “An appellate court, however, may decide an otherwise moot issue if it is of general public interest and importance, recurring in nature, and will otherwise evade appellate review. The applicability of the [Child Protection Orders Act] is a matter of general public interest and importance, its applicability under factu al situations similar to the one here may well be of a recurring nature, and the issues raised here could evade appellate review due to the necessary lapse of time between the filing of the notice of appeal and when the matter could be decided by an appellate court. Consequently, we will not invoke the mootness doctrine, but will review this case on its merits.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Glover v. Michaud