Jennifer Baldwin Cook, Melissa Ehlers, Christine Price, Thayer Jaques, Julie Wolff v. Colgate University

McLAUGHLIN, Circuit Judge:

Colgate University appeals from a judgment entered in the United States District Court for the Northern District of New York (David N. Hurd, Magistrate Judge) ordering it to elevate its women’s club ice hockey team to varsity status and to provide equal funding and benefits to its men’s and women’s ice .hockey programs. Cook v. Colgate Univ., 802 F.Supp. 737 (N.D.N.Y.1992). Because this controversy is now moot, we vacate the judgment of the district court and remand with instructions to dismiss the action.

BACKGROUND

Colgate, a private university, has a male varsity…