Occasionally a court will grant an exception to mootness in cases relating to the public interest. For example, in the 1973 Supreme Court case of Roe v. Wade, challenging a Texas law forbidding abortion, the state argued that the case was moot because plaintiff Roe was no longer pregnant by the time the case was heard. The court granted a hearing anyway, arguing that the public interest was served by deciding the question even if circumstances made it impossible for Roe herself to benefit.
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