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MATTHEWS v. KOUNTZE IND. SCHOOL DIST.

NO. 14-0453.

484 S.W.3d 416 (2016)

Coti MATTHEWS, ON BEHALF OF Her Minor Child, M.M., et al., Petitioners, v. KOUNTZE INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Texas.

Opinion delivered: January 29, 2016.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David W. Starnes , Beaumont, Jeffrey C. Mateer , Hiram S. Sasser III , Kelly J. Shackelford , Liberty Legal Institute, Plano, Bradley G. Hubbard , James C. Ho , Prerak Shah , Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP, Dallas, Mithun Mansinghani , Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, Washington, DC, for Petitioners.

Thomas P. Brandt , Joshua A. Skinner , Fanning Harper Martinson Brandt & Kutchin, P.C., Dallas, for Respondent.

Robert M. Cohan , Jillian Harris , Jackson Walker L.L.P., Dallas, Amicus Curiae for American Jewish Committee.

Rebecca Robertson , ACLU of Texas, Houston, Amicus Curiae for American Civil Liberties Union.

Sean D. Jordan , Jackson Walker LLP, Austin, Amicus Curiae for John Cornyn and Ted Cruz.

Richard B. Farrer , Assistant Solicitor General, Office of Attorney General, Austin, Amicus Curiae for the State of Texas.

The sole issue in this interlocutory appeal is whether the defendant's voluntary cessation of challenged conduct rendered the plaintiffs' claims for prospective relief moot. The court of appeals held that it did. 482 S.W.3d 120, 127-34 (Tex.App.-Beaumont 2014...

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