that doing so hurts the candidate’s ... own chances of prevailing in the election”); Drake v. Obama, 664 F.3d 774, 782-83 (9th Cir.2011) (recognizing the doctrine of “competitive standing” as a basis for challenging the eligibility of a ballot rival). The plaintiffs filed their complaint before the date of the 2012 general election, “[jurisdiction of the Court depends upon the state of things at the time of the action brought, and ... after vesting, it cannot be ousted by subsequent events.” Mullan v. Torrance, 22 U.S. (9 Wheat.) 537, 539, 6 L.Ed. 154 (1824). By contrast, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit denied competitive standing to candidates who did not file their complaint until after President Barack Obama was sworn in to office. Drake, 664 F.3d at 784 (<HOLDING>). Therefore, Goode, a presidential candidate on
holding that even if an agreement that title would pass once financing was obtained the most a creditor could claim was a security interest once the good was delivered holding that once the plaintiffs fixed term of employment expired he had no property interest as a matter of law holding that grandparent has no protected liberty interest in the visitation of a child of whom she once had custody holding that once president obama was sworn in plaintiffs competitive interest in running against a qualified candidate had lapsed holding that plaintiffs had no vested interest in former interpretation of state law