Colorectal liver metastases are often found during routine screening examinations following previous surgery that removed the colon or rectum. Sometimes the cancer is found to have spread to the liver at the same time the colon or rectal cancer is diagnosed.
Wiktionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition: mootness(Noun) The state or condition of being moot. Mootness. In American law, a matter is moot if further legal proceedings with regard to it can have no effect, or events have placed it beyond the reach of the law.
Because Federal Courts only have constitutional authority to resolve actual disputes (see Case or Controversy) legal actions cannot be brought or continued after the matter at issue has been resolved, leaving no live dispute for a court to resolve. In such a case, the matter is said to be moot. For Supreme Court decisions focusing on mootness, see, e.g., Arizonans for Official English v. Arizona, 520 U.S. 43 (1997) and Hicklin v. Orbeck, 437 U.S. 518 (1978).