The Second Circuit has dismissed as moot an appeal seeking to halt enforcement of New York’s independent-expenditure disclosure rules as applied to ads tied to the 2025 New York City mayoral race, leaving the challenged regime in place without resolving the underlying constitutional questions.

The dispute arose from a challenge by American Future Fund to New York’s political-ad disclosure requirements for independent expenditures.

A newly filed joint motion in 1:25-cv-01112 in the Middle District of North Carolina suggests the parties are trying to convert an active emergency dispute into a negotiated procedural reset. View full case on Docket Alarm.

From the docket text, the filing asks the court to enter an agreed order that would, first, deny a pending preliminary injunction motion as moot and, second, grant related relief the parties have apparently negotiated.