Both the U.S. and California Supreme Courts have been unequivocal in their pronouncement that their courts will not issue "advisory opinions." Preiser v. Newkirk, 422 U.S. 395, 401 (1975); Coleman v. Dept. of Personnel Administration, 52 Cal.3d 1102, 1126 (1991). The business of the courts, they maintain, is to decide cases and resolve disputes between litigants. But what happens when the courts are in the middle of deciding a very important issue and something changes, such ...
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