Medicine

MEMORANDUM *

Plaintiffs appeal from the district court’s denial of a preliminary injunction to open satellite offices for late registration and in-person absentee voting in Lame Deer, Fort Belknap, and Crow Agency in Montana. We dismiss the appeal as moot and vacate the district court’s order.

When it is no longer possible for this court to grant the relief requested, a case is moot and this court lacks jurisdiction to hear it. See Dream Palace v. Cnty. of Maricopa, 384 F.3d 990 , 1000 (9th Cir.2004). Because we conclude that the *700 scope of the preliminary injunction only included the 2012 election, this court can no longer provide plaintiffs with the relief requested — requiring defendants to open satellite offices in time for that election. Although plaintiffs’ complaint requested “preliminary and permanent injunctive relief ... for the 2012 primary election and ... for all future elections,” plaintiffs’ motion for a preliminary injunction included no such language, and the evidence presented to the district court focused almost exclusively on the 2012 election. As that election has passed, there is no longer any relief that this court can provide with respect to that…