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Argument analysis: Justices weigh mootness after change in government policy in cases seeking nominal damages

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Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit upheld that decision, Uzuegbunam went to the Supreme Court, which agreed last summer to weigh in. Justice Neil Gorsuch suggested to Waggoner that most lawsuits would still be able to go forward even if a request for nominal damages, standing alone, was not enough to keep a case alive.

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Justices add one religious-rights case to docket but turn down another

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Montana Department of Revenue , the Supreme Court ruled that although states are not required to subsidize private education, states that choose to do so cannot exclude religious schools from receiving funding simply because they are religious. She sought compensatory damages for “humiliation, frustration, and emotional distress.”