Katie Sczesny, et al. v. Philip Murphy, Individually and in His Official Capacity as the Governor of New Jersey, et al.

Does the voluntary cessation doctrine require a defendant to provide affirmative assurance that the challenged conduct will not recur, particularly when the conduct was enacted and repealed by executive fiat and the only basis for repeal was variable public health statistics?

Does a complaint seeking declaratory judgment on the constitutionality of a governor-imposed booster vaccine mandate remain an active controversy after the mandate’s repeal when the plaintiffs were terminated due to noncompliance and now have this adverse termination in their employment record?