United States Second Circuit

In the absence of a class action, there must be a reasonable expectation that the same complaining party would encounter the challenged action in the future to avoid a mootness claim under the "capable of repetition, yet evading review" exception.

Appellate Information

• Argued 01/23/2001
• Decided 10/04/2001
• Published 10/04/2001

Judges

• F.I. PARKER, Circuit Judge:, Before WALKER, Chief Judge;  F.I. PARKER and KATZMANN, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Madeline Sheila Galvin,Galvin & Morgan, Delmar, NY, for Plaintiffs-Appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Julie Sheridan, Office of the Attorney General of the State of New York, Albany, NY, (Eliot Spitzer, Attorney General of the State of New York, Denise A. Hartman, Assistant Solicitor General, Daniel Smirlock, Deputy Solicitor General, Peter H. Schiff, Senior Counsel, on the brief), for Defendant-Appellee George Pataki., Richard L. Burstein,Fernandez, Burstein & Tuczinski, Albany, NY, filed a brief for Defendants-Appellees Columbia County Board of Elections, Thomas Fisher, and Joseph Finn.