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sought.” Friends of the Earth, Inc. v. Laidlaw Environmental Services (TOC), Inc.,

528 U.S. 167, 185 (2000).

Article III standing is established when a plaintiff has an injury that is: “(1)

concrete, particularized, and actual or imminent ([a] so-called injury ‘in fact’); (2)

fairly traceable to the challenged action; and (3) redressable by a favorable

ruling.” McCardell, 794 F.3d at 517 (citing Monsanto Co. v. Geerston Seed Farms, 561

U.S. 139, 149 (2010)). “Article III standing requires a plaintiff seeking injunctive

relief to allege ‘actual or imminent’ and not merely ‘conjectural or hypothetical’

injury.” Frame v. City of Arlington, 657 F.3d 215, 235–36 (5th Cir. 2011) (en banc). A

plaintiff seeking injunctive relief also bears the additional burden of establishing a

“real or immediate threat that the plaintiff will be wronged” in the future. City of Los

Angeles v. Lyons, 461 U.S. 95, 111 (1983).

“A case becomes moot—and therefore no longer a ‘Case’ or ‘Controversy’ for

purposes of Article III—when the issues presented are no longer ‘live’ or the parties

lack a legally cognizable interest in the outcome.” Already, LLC v. Nike, Inc., 568 U.S.

85, 91 (2013) (some internal quotation marks omitted). Even if “the parties continue

to dispute the lawfulness of the conduct that precipitated the lawsuit,” the case is

moot if the dispute “is no longer embedded in any actual controversy about the

plaintiffs’ particular legal rights.” Id. (quotation omitted).

A defendant who voluntarily ceases allegedly unlawful conduct bears the

burden of showing “that the challenged behavior cannot reasonably be expected to

recur.” Id. at 96. A plaintiff cannot avoid dismissal based on mootness, however,

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