hamamoto v. ige /

Published at 2018-01-25 10:00:00

(United States Ninth Circuit) - Affirming the district court's dismissal of the plaintiff's complaint that the temporary appointment of the then-Lieutenant governor as the US senator for Hawaii violated the Seventeenth Amendment because a emptiness election held after the filing of the complaint rendered it moot and the 'capable of repetition, yet evading review' exception did not apply.

Source: findlaw.com