moot case

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After three years' required apprenticeship in an Athens law office, he capped his bar exam by successfully arguing a moot case before a panel that included Greek Supreme Court justices.

From Time Magazine Archive

This practice of Judge Marshall, of travelling out of his case to prescribe what the law would be in a moot case not before the court, is very irregular and very censurable.

From Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 4 by Randolph, Thomas Jefferson

In the first place, it was palpably a moot case; that is to say, it was to the interest of the opposing parties to have the rescinding act set aside.

From John Marshall and the Constitution; a chronicle of the Supreme court by Corwin, Edward Samuel