District of Columbia v. Donald Trump

• Court: Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
• Decided: March 10, 2021
• Docket: 20-1839
• Status: Unpublished

Opinion

FILED: March 9, 2021

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT

No. 20-1839 (8:17-cv-01596-PJM)

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA; STATE OF MARYLAND,

Plaintiffs - Appellees,

v.

DONALD J. TRUMP, President of the United States of America, in his official capacity and in his individual capacity,

Defendant - Appellant.

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SCHOLAR SETH BARRETT TILLMAN; JUDICIAL EDUCATION PROJECT,

Amici Supporting Appellant.

ORDER

The Supreme Court granted Donald J. Trump’s petition for a writ of certiorari from

earlier action in this case, vacated our earlier opinion in In re: Trump, 958 F.3d 274 (4th

Cir. 2020) (en banc), and remanded with instructions to dismiss the case as moot under

United States v. Munsingwear, Inc., 340 U.S. 36, 39 (1950) (noting that the “established

practice” when a case has become moot while on appeal is “to reverse or vacate the judgment below and remand with a direction to dismiss”). Accordingly, we dismiss this

appeal as moot, vacate the decisions below in District of Columbia v. Trump, 291 F. Supp.

3d 725 (D. Md. 2018); 315 F. Supp. 3d 875 (D. Md. 2018); and 344 F. Supp. 3d 828 (D.

Md. 2018), and remand with instructions to dismiss the case.

FOR THE COURT

/s/Patricia S. Connor Clerk