DOE v. WOOTEN

No. 13-10280.

747 F.3d 1317 (2014)

John DOE, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Officer WOOTEN, in his individual capacity, et al., Defendants, Rick stover, in his individual and official capacities, Director, Federal Bureau of Prisons, in his official capacity, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

April 8, 2014.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Samuel S. Park , Kristin R. Palmer , Christopher Page Wilson , Winston & Strawn, LLP, Chicago, IL, David L. Balser , King & Spalding, LLP, Atlanta, GA, Man K. Bonthuis , Covington & Burling, LLP, New York, NY, Thomas Leon Cubbage , III, Covington & Burling, LLP, Philip Fornaci , Washington Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights & Urban Affairs, Jeffrey Howard Lerner , Covington & Burling, LLP, Washington, DC, for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Robert David Powell , Lawrence R. Sommerfeld , Sally Yates, for Defendant-Appellee.

Before PRYOR and MARTIN, Circuit Judges, and HONEYWELL, District Judge.


MARTIN, Circuit Judge:

The Supreme Court has reminded us:

It is no small matter to deprive a litigant of the rewards of its efforts, particularly in a case that has been litigated up to this Court and back down again. Such action on grounds of mootness would be justified only if it were absolutely clear that the litigant no longer had any need of the judicial protection that it sought.

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