[gaijin]

the request for injunctive relief to prevent the seizure of the Property appears moot,” the motion explained. “Judicial economy and the parties’ interests in preserving resources for litigating the actual merits of this case are furthered by dropping the preliminary injunction issue at [t]his time.”

I'm embarrassed to admit I don't know what this means --only that it sounds good.

Can someone out there put this into more vanilla terms for me? I want to understand this, but have the feeling I do not right now.

[gaijin]

Kay so they're saying,

"that's that, the gun parts have been seized, so that ship has sailed already, so no more pondering that philosophy --we'll let the two sides instead fight directly over other legal questions..."

??

[HiTech RedNeck]

The matter being under live litigation won’t be a matter of action until a conclusion is reached in the litigation. At least if the Feds have any integrity, which is questionable.

[marktwain]

Aries Armor asked for an injunction and got it.

BATFE told the court it did not matter because they were investigating a crime, so the court approved their raid.

The BATFE raided, but that did not change the issues asking for the injuction.

Instead of cluttering up the court with legal questions concerning the injunction, and taking up the BATFE and Aries Armor’s time with that issue, the injunction no longer has any effect.

The parties can use their resources on the meat of the real issue instead.

[jameslalor]

Moot = immaterial. What the ruling says is that it’s utterly pointless to argue about a restraining order, as the search has already taken place.

Both the DoJ and Ares Armor are agreeing that it’s best to shelve that issue and move on to other things.