Mealey's (January 19, 2023, 3:59 PM EST) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — In a case seeking review of the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals en banc opinion that a challenge to California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s executive orders closing schools for in-person instruction was moot because the orders had been rescinded under the changing conditions of the COVID-19 pandemic, parents of school children in their reply brief ask the U.S. Supreme Court to determine that school closures could reasonably be expected to recur and, thus, their challenge is not moot....