United States Seventh Circuit

In an Establishment Clause suit attempting to enjoin a government grant to the University of Notre Dame, dismissal for mootness is affirmed on remand from the Supreme Court where: 1) the expiration of the grant mooted plaintiffs' claims for injunctive relief against the Secretary of Education; and 2) plaintiffs lacked standing as taxpayers to pursue a restitutionary remedy against the university.

Appellate Information

• Argued 11/05/2007
• Decided 10/14/2008
• Published 10/14/2008

Judges

• SYKES, Circuit Judge., Before POSNER, EVANS, and SYKES, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Seventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Jacquelyn E. Bowie Suess (argued), Indiana Civil Liberties Union, Indianapolis, IN, for Plaintiffs-Appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Lowell Sturgill (argued), Department of Justice, Washington, DC, for Defendant-Appellee., Michael A. Carvin (argued), Jones Day, Washington, DC, for Defendant-Intervenor-Appellee.