Seven Words Llc, a California Limited Liability Company v. Network Solutions, a Delaware Corporation’s Empirical Analysis
260 F.3d 1089 · 2001
Citation profile
22 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions — most recently July 2024 · most notably Bernhardt v. County of Los Angeles (2002), Lillbask Mauclaire v. State of Connecticut Department of Education S (2005)
22 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
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Most-quoted passages
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“[o]ver and over again, throughout the various legal maneuvers, Seven Words consistently represented that it was seeking only declaratory and injunctive relief. For example, not only did Seven Words, in its Seven Words II complaint, seek only "a declaration of its rights" and "injunctive relief," but it similarly represented that it was "seeking declaratory relief" in its August 1999 opposition to NSI's motion to dismiss .... Seven Words did not ... claim it was seeking damages .... The first time Seven Words raised damages in an effort to defeat mootness was in supplemental briefing on appeal.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Where the activities sought to be enjoined already have occurred, and the appellate courts cannot undo what has already been done, the action is moot, and must be dismissed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Foster v. Carson“A request for damages ... will not avoid mootness if it was `inserted after the complaint was filed in an attempt to breathe life into a moribund dispute.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.