“Voluntary cessation of allegedly illegal conduct does not deprive the court of jurisdiction,” she read from the 4th Cir opinion, which rested on “the principle that parties should not be able to avoid judicial review by temporarily halting their problematic behavior.”
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Plaintiffs, three death row inmates in Virginia, filed suit alleging that their conditions of confinement amounted to cruel and unusual punishment in violation of the Eighth Amendment. Death row inmat...
