Questão jurídica principal
Whether the federal appeal and prior decisions became moot after withdrawal of the building permit application.
Decisão extraída
Yes. The withdrawal of the permit application rendered the federal appeal and the challenged lower-court and municipal decisions moot; the case was struck from the docket.
Fundamentação extraída
Once the construction project was withdrawn, there was no longer a live dispute. In such a situation the Court removes the case from the docket and decides costs in a summary manner.