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143058P.pdf   03/04/2016  Shirley Phelps-Roper  v.  Chris Koster
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  14-3058
                          and No:  14-3266
                          and No:  15-1102
   U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri - Jefferson City   
[PUBLISHED] [Bye, Author, with Riley, Chief Judge, and Gruender, Circuit Judges] Civil case - Civil rights. For the court's prior opinion in the matter, see Phelps-Roper v. Koster, 713 F.3d 942 (8th Cir. 2013). The State of Missouri repealed the statutes in controversy while plaintiff's due process claim remained pending in the district court, and because the challenged statutes ceased to exist, there was no case or controversy to decide, and her challenge became moot; the district court's judgment on the due process claim is vacated and the matter remanded with directions to dismiss the due process count as moot; where the district court granted plaintiff 14% of her remaining fees because she only prevailed on two of her 14 claims, the court engaged in an arithmetically simplistic fee calculation that did not accurately reflect plaintiff's overall degree of success on her interrelated claims; even if the court accepted the district court's mathematical approach, the district court applied it incorrectly because it did not address whether it counted consent judgments, mooted claims and dismissed claims as prevailing, neutral or unsuccessful in making its award.