Questão jurídica principal
Whether the federal appeals had become moot after the cantonal court decided the pending case
Decisão extraída
Yes. Since the cantonal judgment of 12 May 2009 had been issued, there was no longer a live controversy in the federal proceedings.
Fundamentação extraída
The subject matter of the federal complaint had disappeared, so the case had to be removed from the docket under the Federal Supreme Court Act and the federal civil procedure rules by analogy.