ACHESON HOTELS, LLC v. DEBORAH LAUFER, 144 S. Ct. 18

Summary

HOLDINGS: [1]-In a case in which certiorari was granted to consider whether respondent had standing to sue hotels whose websites failed to state whether they had rooms accessible to the disabled as required by the Americans with Disabilities Act even though she had no thought of staying at the hotels, much less booking a room, the suit was rendered moot following respondent’s voluntary dismissal of her pending suits with prejudice. Though respondent’s case was dead, the circuit split respondent single-handedly generated was very much alive. Although the Court was sensitive to petitioner’s concern about litigants manipulating its jurisdiction, it was not convinced that respondent abandoned her case in an effort to evade its review.