Eagle Forum v. State

Following full briefing and shortly before oral argument, the parties informed the panel that they had entered a settlement agreement in which they jointly agreed to dismiss this appeal and ask that the lower court’s order be vacated. In response to this Court’s inquiry about whether we should do so in light of U.S. Bancorp Mortgage Co. v. Bonner Mall Partnership, 513 U.S. 18, 115 S.Ct. 386, 130 L.Ed.2d 233 (1994), the parties filed a joint response, containing no legal analysis, in which they said that under Bonner Mall “the appropriate disposition is the dismissal of the appeal, without an…