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ACHESON HOTELS, LLC v. LAUFER CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FIRST CIRCUIT

No. 22–429. Argued October 4, 2023—Decided December 5, 2023 The Court granted review in this case to consider whether Deborah Lau- fer has Article III standing to sue hotels whose websites failed to state whether they have accessible rooms for the disabled as required by the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, even if Laufer had no thought of staying at the hotels, much less booking a room. After a lower court sanctioned her lawyer, Laufer voluntarily dismissed her pending suits, including her case against Acheson Hotels, LLC, and filed a suggestion of mootness in this Court. Though Laufer’s case is moot, the circuit split on the issue briefed and argued in this Court is very much alive. Held: This case is vacated as moot. The Court has the authority to ad- dress jurisdictional issues of mootness and standing in any order it chooses. See Sinochem Int’l Co. v. Malaysia Int’l Shipping Corp., 549 U. S. 422, 431. And while the Court is sensitive to Acheson’s concern about litigants manipulating this Court’s jurisdiction, the Court is not convinced that Laufer abandoned her case in an effort to evade the Court’s review. Pp. 2–3. 50 F. 4th 259, vacated and remanded.

BARRETT, J., delivered the opinion of the Court, in which ROBERTS, C. J., and ALITO, SOTOMAYOR, KAGAN, GORSUCH, and KAVANAUGH, JJ., joined. THOMAS, J., and JACKSON, J., filed opinions concurring in the judgment. Cite as: 601 U. S. ____ (2023) 1

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SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES _________________

No. 22–429 _________________

ACHESON HOTELS, LLC v. DEBORAH LAUFER ON WRIT OF CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FIRST CIRCUIT [December 5, 2023]

JUSTICE BARRETT delivered the opinion of the Court. Deborah Laufer has sued hundreds of hotels whose web- sites failed to state whether they have rooms accessible to the disabled. As the sheer number of lawsuits suggests, she does not focus her efforts on hotels where she has any thought of staying, much less booking a room. Instead, Laufer systematically searches the web to find hotels that fail to provide accessibility information and sues to force compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA), 104 Stat. 327, 42 U. S. C. §12101 et seq. Ordi- narily, the hotels settle her claims and pay her attorney’s fees. But some have resisted, arguing that Laufer is not injured by the absence of information about rooms she has no plans to reserve. Only plaintiffs who allege a concrete injury have standing to sue in federal court. Laufer, these hotels have argued, is suing to enforce the law rather than to remedy her own harms. Laufer has singlehandedly generated a circuit split. The Second, Fifth, and Tenth Circuits have held that she lacks standi